B, Christian:
KSRF, 1991-92; KACD, 1997-98; KIIS, 1999-2004; "Indie 103.1," 2006-09.
Christian hosts a Sunday night show called Head Trip on Indie 103.1/fm.B, Tony: KIIS, 1991-92; KPWR, 1992-96; KACD, 1996-97;
KDLE,
2003. Tony worked at Dance format KDL, 103.1/fm until a format flip in late
2003.B, Willie: KTNQ, 1976-78;
KIIS, 1980. Willie B. Goode left afternoon drive for WKQK-Memphis in
September 2014.Babcock, George: KFWB, 1961;
KABC, 1973. When George passed away he was 74. Besides radio, he was a
building contractor, plumbing contractor and an ordained minister. At the
age of 70, he decided to get his pilots license.

BABCOCK, John: KDAY, 1955-57; KFWB, 1957-59; KMPC, 1959-61; KLAC, 1961-63; KABC, 1963-73. In 1970, Don Page
of the LA Times named John newscaster of the year
saying: "John Babcock is one of radio's premier
commentators and a leading documentarian."John
was born the day of the 1933 earthquake and started life as
an orphan. He was shuffled between foster homes until he was
adopted by the Babcock family. While he was in his delinquent
teen years, John was sentenced to two years in the Boys
Republic of Chino. Many years later, he became the president
of Chino's Board of Directors. "I am the first
ex-student to be elected president of this risk school."
After graduating from the University of Texas, John started
out in the newspaper business and WOAI-San Antonio. He came
to the Southland and started with KDAY.

For part of his stay
with KABC news he hosted a morningtalk show. John was
the California press director for Vice President Hubert
Humphrey in 1968 and 1972. In 1973 John joined KABC
television as a writer/producer and eventually went into news
management. "When I was at Channel 7's news assignment
desk I could get the reporters to do four stories a day. Then
it was 3, then 2 and now they think they're doing a favor by
covering one story."

John retired in 1995 and
was active writing and running the Boys school. His wife of 17 years was
principal of the Dubonoff School for "kids at risk."Their daughter attended the Peabody Music
Conservatory in Baltimore. John died February 1, 1997, at the
age of 63. Former KFWB newsman Al Wiman said unequivocally
that John "was the best news person EVER!"Babcock, Sam: KDAY, 1962. Sam passed away December 11, 1971,
of a heart attack. He was 42.

BACKUS,
Jim: KLAC, 1959-60. The
voice of the bumbling, nearsighted Mr. Magoo was part of KLAC's
attempt to resurrect the "Big Five" personality era from the forties
and fifties.

Jim died July 3,
1989, of pneumonia at the age of 76. He had suffered from
Parkinson's disease for many years as the self-indulgent millionaire
Thurston Howell III on
Gilligan's Island for three seasons beginning in 1964. One of
his movie roles was playing James Dean's weak-willed, vacillating
father in Rebel Without A
Cause. He is also remembered as the pitchman for a light bulb
commercial imploring, "Don't be a bulb snatcher!"

Jim was born James Gilmore Backus on
February 25, 1913, in Cleveland. His stage career began in summer
stock, where, according to his then-roommate Keenan Wynn, he was as
well known for his prowess with the ladies as he was for his
on-stage versatility. Backus continued acting in
New York, vaudeville, and especially radio
in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a regular on radio's “The Alan Young
Show, portraying Eastern Seaboard snob Hubert Updike III, the
prototype for his
character on Gilligan’s Island. In 1949, he provided the
voice of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo for the first time in the UPA
cartoon Ragtime Bear; the actor later claimed that he based this
character on his own businessman father.

Bad Girls Club: KLSX, 1995-96. A naughty
Saturday evening talk show hosted by Kathlyn Kinmont and
Kimberly Hooper. Kathleen is acting and seen in 1998 episode
of Mortal Kombat. Kimberly is also an actress and
appeared in an episode of UPN's Love Boat.

Bade, Dennis:
KUSC, 1982-89 and 1991-95. Dennis works at the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and hosts a weekly live concert on KMZT from the
Bing Theatre at the L.A. Museum.Badeaux, Jon: KFXM, 1965-66; KMEN, 1966,
KWIZ, 1967; KHJ, 1968-77; KDAY, 1978-92. Jon is works for Entercom as the
traffic systems manager in the
Northwest.Bailey, Carl: KBIG, 1952-79.Bailey, Duane "Doc": KLIT,
1989-94; KEZY, 1996-98; KBIG, 1998-2012. Doc was the production director at
MY/fm (KBIG) until Clear Channel downsizing in late 2012.

BAILEY,
Steve: KMPC, 1951-95. Steve was director of the Golden West sports
operations.

Born in Logan, Utah
in 1925, he was a color commentator and producer of sports projects
at KMPC for decades. He started at KMPC as a record librarian. Steve
worked with such popular sportscasters as Bob Kelley and Dick
Enberg, and produced game broadcasts of the Pacific Coast League
L.A. Angels, California Angels, Rams and UCLA. He was briefly the
announcer of the California Angels but his strength was behind the
scenes. He began his career in 1946, moving right out of college to
go to work in his hometown of
Logan. When he joined KMPC in 1951, he
immediately was taken under the wing of the late Bob Kelley - the
sports voice of Southern California
and play-by-play man for the Rams. In 1995 Steve produced an
award-winning documentary on the broadcasting career of the late
Jim Healy.

He died
November 24, 1995, of complications following treatment for
lymphoma. He was 70.
Sports announcer Dick Enberg reflected for Larry
Stewart in the LA Times:
"Steve was a producer before there were producers. He worked behind
the scenes, but he was a real giant in the business."

Bain, Jim: KWIZ, 1965-69 and 1974-79 and
1981-85; KIQQ, 1973; KEZY, 1988; KGIL, 1998-2000. Jim does
fill-in at the Adults Standard format at Westwood One.Baird,
Jon: KNX, 2007-15. Jon is a reporter at KNX.Baisden,
Michael: KKBT/KRBV, 2006-07. Michael's syndicated show started at the BEAT in late
Spring 2006 and continued to the format change and identity of V-100.

Baka Boyz:
KPWR, 1993-99; KKBT, 1999-2000;
KDAY, 2005-07. Eric and Nick Vidal moved to Miami in early
2003. They work morning drive at XMOR-San Diego. Baker, Cory: KGBS, 1978-89. Cory worked
for the High Desert 98/99 station until late summer 2009.Baker, Dave: KGIL/KMGX, 1990-92;
KTWV, 2010-11. Dave is
production director at "91X" in San Diego.Baker,
James: KBIG, 1999-2001. James was pd at "Star 101.3" in
San Francisco until November 2006. He is now the FM Supervisor for Saudi
Aramco's radio stations in Dhahran.Baker, Pam: KFWB, 1998-2000 and
2001-2004; KRTH, 2004-05; KKBT, 2005-06; KHHT, 2008-09.
Pam is an AE at KTWV and KRTH. Baker, Todd: KZLA, 1999; KBIG, 1999-2001;
KKGO, 2007. Todd works mornings at WKQC-Charlotte.Baldwin, Mel: KNX, 1951-66 and 1980-91;
KNX/fm, 1971. Mel is living in Florida where he races small remote control
boats.

BALLANCE, Bill:
KNX,
1952-55; KFWB,
1955-65; KGIL,
1966; KGBS,
1969-73; KABC,
1974-77; KWIZ,
1977. Born Willis Bennett Ballance, "Billo" and a graduate of the
University of Illinois, Bill worked at KOA-Denver and
WBKB/TV-Chicago in the early 1950s.

One of
the original "Seven Swingin' Gentlemen" when KFWBwent "Color Radio" in 1958, Bill
worked mostly evenings. Bill went to Denver and San Francisco
following KFWB where he had impressive success. He then went to
Honolulu’s KHVH, was later pd of KGMB and then returned to the
mainland to KNBR-San Francisco.

Bill
suddenly skyrocketed when he converted the routine rock-jock formula
at KGBS into the "Feminine Forum." His most lasting claim in
Southern California radio was that he was the first to openly
address sexuality, issues of sexual intercourse and sexual
preference. By 1972 his "Feminine Forum" was syndicated in a number
of major cities, simulcast in San Diego and he won the Gavin
award that year. Bill gave the phone lines over to the ladies and
listened. He wouldn't even call them housewives. They were women in
Bill's mind - educated and intelligent - and he treated them that
way. Between calls, he played the hits.

Bill was
profiled in every major publication in the country, as well as the
London Times
and a Cosmopolitan
cover story. Time
magazine said, "Bill has many imitators, but no rivals."

In March
1973, a front-page story in the Times
reported that executive vp of Storer Broadcasting, Peter Storer, felt that
the image of Bill's program had been "colored and damaged by less-restricted
imitators." As a result, it was
announced that the program would be dropped. The FCC eventually concluded
his show was "not obscene," but it was too late. For all the attention his
show attracted, Bill did it with taste. He knew the line not to cross, but
his copycats didn't, and Bill got the blame, never getting true credit for
his bold, sex-oriented broadcasting. His brilliant command of the language
prevented his KGBS show from being dirty. His show was a lot like the old
girlie magazines. It wasn't total nudity - it showed just enough to make it
tantalizing. His tome, Bill Ballance Reveals How to Cope,
had five printings. In 1978 he moved to KFMB-San Diego, where he worked
until departing in the summer of 1993.

BALTER, Sam:
KLAC,
1940s-62 and 1967. Sam was one of the most popular sports
broadcasters in Los Angeles radio history. He was the former
captain of the UCLA basketball team and a member of the gold
medal-winning U.S. basketball team in 1936 when the sport was
introduced to the Olympics for the first time. Sam was the
voice of UCLA football and basketball teams and worked at
KLAC from 1946 to 1962. He also was a sports columnist for
the Los Angeles Herald Express. Sam died August 8, 1998, at the age
of 88, from abdominal surgery.

Born
in 1909 in Detroit, Balter was signed by the Chicago White Sox after
graduating from Roosevelt High School but chose to attend UCLA, where he
played guard on the basketball team. In 1950 he did commentary for a USC-Utah game
on local tv. He was the radio announcer
for UCLA basketball and football and did television play-by-play for
the Los Angeles Stars of the American Basketball Association and the Los
Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League.

Balter was a charter
member of the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association and
was elected to the SCSBA Hall of Fame and the UCLA Athletic Hall of
Fame. He also worked at KABC, wrote a sports column for the Los
Angeles Herald Express, and had a recurring role as a radio
announcer on the 1952-58 Adventures of Superman tv series.

Banana, Rico: KDLE, 2003; KDAY,
2005; KHHT, 2006-07. Rico works at Hot 97-New York.Banda, Tom: KXEZ, 1993-95; KYSR, 1996; KIBB,
1996-97. Tom represents Latin artists.Banet, Brenda: KKLA, 1999, 2001-02. Brenda works weekends at KKLA and
on Christian Pirate Radio.Banks, Bill: KNAC,
1976-95. Bill left his post as operations manager at Liberman
Broadcasting in the summer of 2002.Banks, Doug: KDAY; KHJ; KFI, 1978-82. Doug
works afternoon drive for ABC Radio Networks.Banks, Robin: KNX/fm/KODJ/KCBS,
1989-2005.
Born in London, Robin worked weekends at "Arrow 93."Banks,
Robin: KKGO, 2006-08. Robin worked
morning drive at Go Country 105.1/fm until February 2008. She returned to
Metro and lost her job in early fall of 2008 due to downsizing and was
rehired in late 2009. She provides traffic for KFMB-San Diego. Banister, Raymond: KROQ,
1980-2004. Raymond works morning drive for a radio station in Prescott,
Arizona.Banoczi, Jeannette: KNOB,
1966-87. The former owner of KNOB built stations in Las
Vegas, San Bernardino, Lake Arrowhead and Palm Desert.

(Pepe Barreto
and Betty Breneman)

Barajas,
Larry: KNX, 1998-2015. Before joining the KNX traffic team,
Larry was an airborne reporter for Shadow Broadcast Services
in San Diego. He now works for Total Traffic.Barber,
Andy: KROQ, 1974; KTNQ, 1978; KWST, 1981-82. Andy works mornings at Classic
Hits KBEZ-Tulsa. Barber, Jerry: KLOS/KABC, 1972-83. Jerry
now works for Disney ABC in Hollywood in the "on air promo
department" for the ABC/TV network. Barberie, Jillian:
KABC, 2015. Jillian, former co-host of Good Day LA and NFL Pre-Game weather
girl, joined KABC for middays with John Phillips. In January 2015, the pair
moved to afternoon drive.Bard,
Adrienne: KNX, 2007-10. Adrienne was a reporter for KNX and is based in
Mexico City.

BARKLEY, Roger:
KLAC, 1961-67; KFWB,
1967-68; KFI, 1968-86; KJOI, 1986-89;
KABC, 1990-96. Roger
grew up in Odebolt, Iowa, and dreamed of being either a radio
announcer or preacher. "I guess the ham in me needed to
have a stage." After high school he attended the
American Institute of the Air in Minnesota and was a page boy
at WCCO-Minneapolis. He started his radio career at
KYSM-Mankato, Minnesota. Two years later he was pd at
KSUM-Fairmont, Minnesota. He moved on to KALL-Salt Lake City.
Roger served in the U.S. Army and returned to the microphone
at KBOX-Dallas followed by KIMN-Denver.

As director of
programs at KLAC, Roger hired Al Lohman for the morning show.
When the station was sold to Metromedia, the new owners began
a search for a two-man morning team. "We figured we were
all going to be fired so Al and I thought perhaps we should
do the morning show as a team. this way we could buy some
time to look for another job." The partnership lasted a
quarter of a century. During the 1990s, Roger teamed with Ken
Minyard for mornings at KABC. Roger passed away December 21,
1997, after a short battle with cancer. He was 61.

Barker, Bruce:
KCAQ, 1988-93; KPLS, 1993-2000; KKLA/KRLA/KFSH, 2000-02. Since 2002, Bruce
has been a voiceover artist and owner of RightAfterThis.com, a tv and radio
production studio. Barnard,
Bill: KBLA, 1966. Unknown as to the whereabouts of the KBLA newsman.Barnes, Brenda: KUSC,
1997-2015. Brenda was
the general manager at KUSC. She is the president of USC Radio.Barnes,
Clarence: KIIS, 1999-2006; KMVN, 2006-09. Clarence joined the Rick Dees morning
show at Movin' 93.9/fm in the fall of 2006 and left in early 2009 with a
format flip to Spanish. He was program director at KKUU-Palm
Springs until late summer 2013.

(Chris Booker, Jodi Becker, Brian Barnhart, and Andy Barber)

Barnes, Jeff: KCXX, 1999-2002. Jeff worked
all-night at the Inland Empire station.Barnes, Hoss: KBBQ, 1968-71. Hoss
has his own ministry called Encouragement in Christ.Barnett, Russ: XTRA, 1960-62; KMPC, 1963-72;
KABC, 1972-73. Russ worked at KLIF-Dallas and when
Gordon McLendon (owner of KLIF) turned XTRA into the
worlds first all-News station in 1960, he tapped Russ
as manager for the launch. On New Years Day 1963 Russ joined
KMPC as pd and was named Program Director of the Year by
Gavin. "From the time I was a young guy, I felt that if
I could go on the air and add a few smiles to the lives of my
listeners through my rather corny sense of humor and make
enough money to support my family, Id be well pleased
with my contribution to life. Know what? I am." At his
memorial, the Count Basie band played in honor of Russ. Russ died October 16, 1998, at the age of 69.Barnhart, Brian: KMPC/KRLA/KLAC, 1998-99.
Brian was part of the Anaheim Angels broadcast team. He's now the play-by-play
voice of the University of Illinois football and basketball teams.Baron, George: KSRF,
1965-71. George was the general manager of the Santa Monica-based station.Barone, Don: KIEV, 1972. Unknown.

BARONFELD, David:
KLAA,
2011-14. David was the general manager at the Angels' flagship station, KLAA.
He left the station in June 2014.

Baronfeld, a graduate of Hofstra
University, began his radio career at the age of 18 in New York City
and moved into sales at 27. At age 34, he was appointed to his first
senior management position as gm at KSJO-San Jose. He went on to
spend nearly 10 years at Westwood One as Senior Vice President of
the Western Region, overseeing 19 cities in the western half of the
United States.

For three years before joining KLAA,
Baronfeld served as general manager of Viamedia, a cable television
ad sales rep firm, and built the advertising sales unit for Verizon
FiOS TV in Southern California.

Barragan, Jaime: KYMS, 1993-95; KLOS,
1995-96. Last heard, Jaime was working in the Inland Empire.Barreto, Pepe: KALI, 1977-85;
KLVE, 1985-2001; KXOL, 2004-07. Pepe anchored the very successful Spanish morning
drive slot on "K-Love." Born in 1947 to Peruvian
parents, he and his wife moved to California in 1972 and
started as a dj in San Francisco. He came to the Southland in
1985 to work at KLVE and KVEA/Channel 52. Pepe works mornings at KXOL. He
received a Star on Hollywood in Spring of 2004.

(Bob Buchmann, Gary Bryan, Barbara Barri,
and Guy Black)

Barrett,
Dickie: KDLD/KDLE, 2005-06. Dickie, the announcer on the ABC Jimmy Kimmel
Show, started doing mornings at "Indie 103.1fm" in late January 2005.
He left in the spring of 2006.Barrett,
Don: KIQQ, 1971-73. Don is publisher of LARadio.com and he was the radio columnist for the Orange
County Register in 2013.Barrett, John: KRLA, 1961-69. John is
partnered with Norm Epstein in a travel-related marketing
firm.Barrett,
Rona: KFWB, 1985. Rona is living in the Santa Ynez Valley and heads the Rona
Barrett Foundation.Barri,
Barbara: KZLA, 1979-93. Barbara is doing voiceover work.Barry, Bill: KMPC, KZLA; KOST; KGIL,
1984-92. Bill hosted The Channel 5 Theatre on KTLA
from 1971 to 1981 and the weekly Pinbusters show. Bill
was a reporter with Shadow Traffic in Los Angeles at the time
of his death in October 1993. He was 50.Barry,
Lee: KRLA/KTIE, 2007-14. Lee reports traffic and news from AirWatch for
KRLA and KTIE.Barry, Thom: KLAC, 1987-93. Thom is a
successful on-camera commercial actor.

(Rich Boerner, Rona Barrett, Michelle Boros, and Erik Braverman)

Bartel, Dennis: KUSC, 1975-80;
KUSC, 2007-12. Dennis, aka James Bartel, works mornings at KUSC, after fourteen
years on-air at WGMS-Washington, DC. Previously he was the founding program
director and an on-air personality at WJHU-Baltimore (1986-1990), and dj at
WQED-Pittsburgh. His book of short stories Voyeurs was published in
2006. It contains two stories set at radio stations.Barth, Paul: KWIZ, 1971-74. Last heard, Paul
owned a station in Redding, California.Bartholomew,
Casey: KFI, 1994-99. Casey and Scott Hasick worked mornings at KTRS-St.
Louis until the Spring of 2006. Casey now works at WPHT-Philadelphia.Bartley,
Dick. Dick hosts a number of syndicated Oldies programs.Bass, Dick: KMPC, 1976-87. Last heard, the
former Ram running back was the customer relations executive
for a trucking firm, ICX.Bastida, Don: Don
was director of ops at TotalTraffic for Clear Channel until the spring of
2012. He's a screenwriter/producer.Bastien, Brian: KPOL; KFWB, 1968-77;
KBIG/KBRT, 1977-80; KFWB, 1980-83. Brian has an active
voiceover career and he teaches karate.

(Jonathon Brandmeier,
Foster Brooks, and True Don Bleu)

Batchelor John: KFI, 2008-09; KABC,
2009-10, John's
syndicated show was carried on Sunday nights until late 2009. He was heard
briefly on weekend nights at KABC. Bauer,
Jacque: KWIZ, 1980-82; KIQQ, 1981-82; KBRT, 1982. Jacque
works for a promotion company in South Bend.Baugh, Jeff: KFWB,
1986-2008; KNX, 2008-12. Jeff is an
airborne traffic reporter at all-News KNX.Baxter, Ed: KROQ: KMPC; KIIS. Ed works morning drive at KGO-San
Francisco.Baxter, Danny: KDAY; KRLA, 1964-65; KHJ,
1968; KGBS, 1969. Danny is retired and lives in Las Vegas.Baxter,
Dennis: KCAA, 2004-09. Dennis left morning drive at the Inland Empire station,
KCAA, in 2009. He also worked as news anchor and in his final year was
general manager. Baxter,
Frank: KRLA. Frank headed "Oak Knoll Broadcasting," the non-profit group
that operated KRLA between licenses. During the 1950s, the professor of
English at USC, produced Shakespeare on TV, which won seven Emmy
Awards. He starred on a PBS series as "Dr. Science," explaining science to
children. He died on January 18, 1982. He was 85.Baxter, Gene: KROQ,
1990-2015. Gene, as
Bean, is part of the Kevin & Bean morning team at KROQ.

BAYLEY,
Lee: KIQQ, 1978-80, pd. If you grew up in Tulsa in
the 1960s, you knew Lee Bayley. He was the morning host on Top
40-radio station KAKC. He also hosted Dance Party
on Channel 6.

“He was a small-town kid raised in Sam Walton's backyard,” wrote
Bob Shannon in R&R. “Lee met his only wife
in second grade and never lost her. In his 40 years in our business
he's had only seven jobs, has never been fired and, in the last
18-years of his career, has quietly consulted. He was a morning man
with a 60 share, one of the guiding forces of 24-hour syndicated
programming, and someone who worked so closely with Bill
Drake that when they parted company, Drake was brought to
tears.”

Lee Bayley died February 17, 2013.

Before coming to L.A. Lee started radio at the age of 15 in
Arkansas. He was the morning man for Armed Forces Radio and TV in
Panama. Upon leaving the Army he became pd and worked morning drive
for KAKC-Tulsa, where he first met Bill Drake. Beginning in 1971,
Lee moved to L.A. as vp of programming for Bill Drake and
Drake/Chenault.

The company programmed over 300 stations across the country with
five different formats. Lee joined KIQQ in 1978 as pd and left for
Dallas to be gm of Disney’s TM Programming in 1980. He formed his
own consultancy in 1981.

Bayley retired in west Texas in early 2000s, but his daughter said
he was still active, emceeing community events and serving as a
volunteer firefighter.

Barrazo,
Miguel: KPWR, 2006-07. Miguel started evenings at Power 106 in the fall of
2006.Beach, Sandy: KDAY, 1970-71. When Sandy left
radio, he founded Rogers Sound Labs.Beach, Sandy: KROQ, 1977. Sandy, nee Brad
Sobel, died April 19, 2007. He was 54.Beasing, Dave: KXEZ, 1993-95; KYSR, 1995
and 1996; KRBV/KSWD, 2008-12. Dave was appointed program director of the new
Bonneville station (100.3/fm The Sound) in the spring of 2008.

(Dave Benoit, Les Beigel, and Levi Booker)

Beasley, Dave: KGFJ, 1973-74. Unknown.Beaton, Fred and Bill: KIEV, 1961-98. The
Beaton brothers owned KIEV until selling the station to Salem
Communications in 1998.Beck, Glenn: KIIS/AM, 2001-02;
KMXE/KLAA, 2006-07; KGIL, 2009; KRLA, 2010-12; KEIB, 2014-15. The syndicated host joined
Orange County's 830AM in late summer of 2006 and went on to KGIL briefly. He worked morning drive at Salem's KRLA until April 2012.
He's now heard on 1150 AM The Patriot.Beck, Ken: KIQQ, 1976-78; KMPC, 1978-82;
KFI, 1982-83; KFWB, 1988-92. For over a decade Ken has held various
executive posts at
Entercom. He's based in Seattle.Beck, Thom: KRLA, 1966-70; KIIS, 1970-72;
KBBQ, 1972; KGFJ, 1972; KRLA, 1974-76; KFI, 1980. Thom was
one of the founding members of the nationally acclaimed and
highly innovative satirical news group, "The Credibility
Gap" in 1968. He narrated the popular "Pop
Chronicles" in 1969, a weekly series that chronicled
popular music from the mid-1950s to 1969. In the early 1980s,
Thom worked evenings at KIIS when it was MOR. He also hosted
a midday jock show at KRLA. He returned to his roots in Texas
and taught acting. Thom died a few years later of a heart
attack.Becker,
Jodi: KFI, 2005-09. Jodi was part of the KFI news department until late
spring 2009. She returned to Wisconsin to get married.

BEEBE,
Richard: KRKD, 1958-59; KRLA,
1959-70, nd; KPPC,
1971-72; KRLA, 1981-85
and 1991-94; KGIL;
KMET; KABC;
KMNY. Best remembered as
a co-founder and member of the nationally acclaimed and highly
innovative satirical news group, "The Credibility Gap," Richard had
a relationship with KRLA that lasted over five decades.

Richard was
born in Pasadena
and raised in Alhambra.
He started his radio career in 1949 working as a dj/newsman in
Santa Fe and then went to Globe,
Arizona
before joining the Air Force. He was assigned to the base radio
station at Barksdale Air Force Base in
Shreveport. Following his discharge, Richard
attended PasadenaCityCollege and the Pasadena
Playhouse and graduated with a B.A. in theater arts.One of his classmates was Dustin Hoffman. While waiting for his
"big break" he worked in the freight yards of downtown Los Angeles and did relief
work at KRKD. He was in a repertory company with Dyan Cannon when he
was hired by KRLA.

It
was 1959 and Canadian millionaire Jack Kent Cooke had just purchased KRLA.
Richard remembered his instructions from Cooke when he started doing morning
drive news: "I want it as fast as you can go and make it exciting." Morning
man Emperor Bob Hudson syndicated "The Emperor" idea and
soon there were “Emperors” in cities across the country. Each station
received custom promos featuring Richard as Colonel Splendid and Casey Kasem
as Lt. Cavendish. As a news alternative, the award-winning “Credibility Gap”
was an irreverent presentation reflecting the volatile political landscape
of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. In June 1971, the “Gap” group moved to
KPPC. They went on to record four albums (An
Album of Political Pornography on Blue Note;
Woodschtick and More on Capitol,
A Great Gift Idea on Reprise, and
The Bronze Age of Radio on Warehouse) with Richard as
co-writer/performer/producer and they toured college campuses. The group
broke up in the mid-seventies and Richard returned to radio news.

Richard passed away August 29, 1998, at the age of 68.

Beigel, Les: KFWB, 1967; KBIG, 1968; KLAC,
1969; XPRS, 1973; KGBS, 1974-78. Les did voiceover work for a tv/radio
production facility. He passed away April 28, 2012 of lung cancer, at the
age of 69.Beiler, Ed: KWIZ, 1973; KABC, 1973-76; KIEV,
1976; KGOE, 1978-79; KGIL, 1986; KABC, 1989-90; KIEV,
1994-96; KWNK, 1996. Ed was known as "Superfan" and
was last heard in Kansas City.Beirne,
Brian: KRTH, 1976-2004. From 1985-87, Brian was the entertainment reporter
for Channel 11. He left the legendary Oldies station on December
15, 2004. He is a concert promoter of groups from the early Rock era.Bell, Art: KABC, 1995-2000; KFI,
2001-02 and 2003-07. Art's syndicated
show aired from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. nightly on KFI. He retired at the
end of 2002 and in early Fall of 2003, Art returned to Premiere for weekend
syndicated work.Bell,
Mike: KROQ, 1988-89. Mike live afternoons
on '98.5 The Fox' in Bakersfield and voice tracking afternoons at Country
KTPI in Lancaster/Palmdale. Bell, Tom: KACD, 1997; KSSE,
1997-2005-06. Tom was gsm at KSSE and left in late 2006.Bellamy, Sam:
KMET, 1974-83; KMPC/KEDG, 1987-89. Sam lives in the San Fernando Valley.Bellman, Joel: KBIG, 1987. Joel is press
deputy to LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.Bemis, John: KFMU, 1964-65; KLFM, 1965; KFOX, 1965-66; XEGM, 1966-68; KGFJ,
1968-73; KWIZ, 1972-74; KUTE, 1973-74. John lives in Lake Havasu City,
Arizona and has
a career in real estate.Bender, Aron: KFI, 2007-15. Aron
is
the evening news anchor at KFI.Bender, Marty: KROQ. Marty is program
director at WSHE-Chicago.

BENEDICT, Chuck: KLAC, 1963-69. Chuck, a charter member of
the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association and a two-time
president of the organization, died at his home in Glendale on November 9,
2002. He was 83.

"I never got to be great, but I sure was fortunate to have worked with
great people!" That's the way the folksy conversation started in 1997
with the man who was "Joe Pyne on KLAC Fridays." (Joe worked a
four-day week for a reported $2,000 a week and Chuck worked the
fifth day.)

Born April 17, 1919, in Woodside, Maryland, he grew up in South
Carolina, where he played high school baseball. Chuck was the son of a
talented family. His mother, Margaret, was active in the early days of
network radio and his father was a poet and athlete.
Being around some of the greats like Arthur Godfrey sparked his fascination
with radio.Chuck
started in radio in 1934 while in high school at WIS-Columbia, South
Carolina. During and after World War II, he was active in Armed Forces
Radio.

"I got fired from more jobs - which was beautiful. I got to
travel and meet more interesting people as a result of moving around. I had
a ball," Chuck told me while being interviewed for Los Angeles Radio
People. Through a varied career, Chuck had been a sports commentator
associated with the L.A. Rams, for 40 consecutive years. He wrote 23 sports
annuals for Petersen Publishing during the 1970s and free-lanced with the
700 Club and Christian radio. Chuck was in charge of the Heisman Trophy
Award voting in the 12 Western states and he worked with Tom Harmon. He was
a sports anchor at KTTV/Channel 11 from 1964-70 and was a charter member of
the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association and served as its
president for four terms. He was the first general chairman of the SCSBA's
annual Hall of Fame awards luncheon. Over the years, Chuck has made more
than 2,500 speeches on the personal appearance circuit. Since 1990 Chuck has
written a twice-weekly column for the Glendale
News-Press. He was always a master storyteller who always seems to be in
the right place. Chuck was in the underground Summa headquarters the day
Howard Hughes died. "Hughes died on an airplane between Acapulco and
Houston. A recluse, he never had been in his own underground Summa
office."Chuck broke the
story.

“

Chuck Benedict's departure from this planet is everybody's
loss,” wrote Jim Hawthorne.” He and I worked together during my early
years in broadcasting, and his never failing willingness to contribute to
the end result reflected his loyalty and drive to achieve success. In recent
years we have had a continuous email correspondence and his attitude was
just the way it was in those beginnings - always upbeat and positive. Damn,
I will sincerely miss him!”

A graduate of MichiganStateUniversity
(1970) with a B.A. in television and radio management, Michael spent
four years in Detroit
radio before arriving in the Southland. Though he's worked as a dj
and newsman, he is best known for his popular talk radio programs.
Some excerpts from local press on Michael's show: "...a kind of
Norman Vincent Peale of the Left." "...a no-cream-please burst of
enlightenment and inspiration." "...I have never heard a more
enlightening, informative program."

In 1987, Michael started a stress
management and personal development company for individuals, couples
and business. Also a federally licensed amateur radio operator,
N6IJR, Michael volunteers with the American Red Cross, the City of
Glendale,
and Glendale Chamber of Commerce in Disaster Preparedness.

Michael lived on Maui for five years
and returned to the mainland in 2012.

(Irma Blanco, Art Blaske, Brian Bastien, and John Butler)

Bennett,
Beau: KIIS/AM/KXTA, 1997-98. Last heard Beau was pd for a
station in Boise, Idaho.Bennett, Chuck: KFI,
1963-69. Unknown.

BENNETT, Frank: KNAC, 1975-78; KWST,
1978-80, KROQ 1980-83. Frank went on to do afternoons and production
at KOME-San Jose from 1985-94 and then KFOX-San Jose/San Francisco
until 2001. Frank became Frances and is now a multimedia
web developer for a Silicon Valley based high-tech multinational
corporation, working from her home in the lake/hill country above
Austin. Her website is auntfran.com.

Bennett, Matt: KFOX, 1982. Unknown.Bennett, Mike: KFI, 1984; KIKF, 1985-88 and
1992-93; KYSR, 1993-96; KBIG, 1996-98. SEE Mike CarlucciBennett, Myron: KABC, 1960. Unknown.Benoit,
Dave: KMZT, 2011-12. The five-time Grammy nominated composer and pianist, David
has had an expansive career as a contemporary jazz pianist that has included
over 25 charting solo recordings. He is the on-going conductor of the Asia
America Symphony Orchestra. David works afternoons at "K-Mozart."

BENOIT,
Sharon: KMPC, 1969-74. Sharon was a publicity
whiz during the glory years at 710/KMPC in the ‘60s and ’70. She later
became a trade publication executive.

Sharon died July 20, 2010, at the age
63, from cancer. She was very active in her church and community and
spearheaded numerous fundraisers. Friends in her La Canada church loved to
hear her tell stories of working at KMPC, which was known as “The Station of
the Stars.” They would marvel at what a great storyteller she was.
Michael
Nash shared memories of Sharon at her Celebration of Life. They both were
hired as teens at 710/KMPC and remained lifelong friends. “We had the
greatest playground in which to learn and grow,” said Michael. “The thing we
remember best about Sharon was that effervescent smile, eyes that served as
a welcoming beacon to one and all, and the laughter that echoed throughout
the hallways of the radio station. She was genuine, which was a rare quality
in Hollywood. It didn’t take long to realize that once embraced by Sharon
you would be able to count on her loyalty forever.”

“She
participated in a great deal of charity work in the past few
years. What I will remember most is her love of life and a smile
that wouldn't quit. There were no shades, either, behind her eyes -
they would absolutely glow when in the company of those she loved,
and the combination of the two was hard to resist. You had to feel
good just being around her. She was close to all the KMPC
heavyweights, Gary Owens, Wink Martindale
and Roger Carroll.”

Benoit, Steve: KNNS, 1995-96; KNX. Steve is
sales manager of Universal Mail & Courier in Van Nuys and
is part of Shadow Traffic.

BENSON, Don: KIIS, 1981-82.
Don's legacy in Los Angeles radio was hiring Rick Dees
to do mornings on KIIS. Don left February 22, 1982, to rejoin
WQXI-Atlanta and later became a consultant with the Burkhart/Douglas
firm working with various CHR, Hot AC and AC stations. Don is
president of the radio division at Jefferson-Pilot.

A
graduate of Vanderbilt University, Don first joined WQXI AM/FM as a
programming assistant in November of 1974 under the tutelage of
Scott Shannon. He rose quickly to assistant program
director and in 1977 was promoted to program director of WQXI/fm. He
changed the format and identity; it became Top 40 94Q. In 1979,
Benson left, however WQXI lured him back in 1992, this time as
operations manager.

In 1994, Jefferson Pilot hired Don for
the newly created position of corporate vp of programming &
operations; later he became senior vice president. In 2006 Jefferson
Pilot merged with Lincoln Financial to become Lincoln Financial
Media. In 2008, Benson was promoted to his present position,
president and chief executive officer, based in Atlanta. Benson
currently serves as a member of the Broadcast Advisory Board for the
Associated Press and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the
Radio Advertising Bureau. He also currently represents the top fifty
continuously-rated radio markets on the Arbitron Advisory Council.
Don was named to Radio Ink’s list of “The 40 Most Powerful
People in Radio.”

Benson, Gordon: KGIL, 1965-66; KEZY, 1966.
Unknown.

BENSON,
Sam: KLAC, 1947-84. For almost four decades, Sam
(Bensussen) was the only constant through management, ownership and
format changes. He saw it all from the legendary "Big 5" djs to
Joe Pyne to "Future Fonic Sound,"
Haynes at the Reins and the transition to a Country format. Sam
passed away on November 12, 2012, at the age of 90.

Sam was director of publicity, public affairs,
and promotion. The native Angeleno spent his entire life in
California except for a stint in the Air Force (where he met his
wife Dorothy). After Los Angeles City College, Sam worked for KIEV
and KVEC-San Luis Obispo and after his military commitment, he
returned, ironically, to both KVEC and KIEV before joining KLAC. In
1984 Sam was editorial director for KTTV/Channel 11 and retired in
1987.

For a couple of decades, Sam worked public
relations every September for the Los Angeles County Fair. How did
he survive for almost 40 years with KLAC? "I was the only guy
willing to do the job. Before deregulation, there was plenty of
public affairs material that had to be prepared at license renewal
time. I bobbed and weaved. I always had a pencil behind my ear and I
moved down the hallways on my way to a 'very important meeting.' It
was difficult to hit a moving target."

Sam was born on
February 1, 1922 in Los Angeles to Turkish immigrants. He grew up near the
Coliseum and USC, graduating from Freemont High in 1940. He cherished his
years at Freemont and helped spearhead his annual class reunions through the
60th and beyond.

Benson, "Uncle" Joe: KLOS,
1981-94; KLSX, 1995-96; KLOS, 1996-97; KCBS/fm, 1997-2005; KLOS, 2005-13;
KSWD, 2013-15.
Joe left the Classic Rocker "Arrow 93" in March 2005 following a format flip
and started afternoons at KLOS in late spring. Joe was moved from afternoon
drive at KLOS to weekends in late summer 2009 and in 2012 rejoined afternoons
at KLOS. In February 2013, Joe took over mornings at 100/The Sound,
KSWD.Benti, Joseph: KJOI, 1987. The longtime
television broadcaster and newsman, dispensed commentary on
"K-Joy." He was seen on KCET. He describes his current vocational
status as "retired and extinct."Bentley, Jason: KCRW, 1991-97; KROQ,
1996-97.Bentli,
Ty: KBIG, 2010-12. Ty worked afternoons at MY/fm until late spring of 2012.
In July 2012, he joined Top 40 WNOW (92.3 Now) in New York
for mornings.

He joined 95.9 The Fish
in 2002. Prior to Southern California, BWD spent most of his
professional career in Nashville as production director of legendary
stations WLAC AM&FM and WSIX, as well as 107.5 The River, The Beat,
101.1 The One, The Rock @ 105.9 and the Salem Music Network. He has
also worked radio stations in Virginia Beach and Boston. Radio was
in his blood at a very young age. His mom has tapes of him reading The Cat In The Hat and other books into an old Radio Shack
tape recorder.

Born in Tucson, he
was raised in Milford, NH. Dave graduated from Trevecca Nazarene
University with a BA in communications and human relations and a BS
in theater. Dave earned his MBA from Hope International University
in 2006.

(Chuck Blore, Big Boy, Rodney Bingenheimer, and Dr. Joy Browne)

Berends, Tim:
KBRT, 1986-87 and 1992-94. Tim used to co-host "Mornings with Tim and Al"
(with Al Gross) on KBRT in 1986-87 (winning the LA Herald Examiner's
Top Jock Contest in 1986). In 1994 they spent a decade at KJSL (the old KXOK)
in St Louis. Tim now hosts a weekly program on KKVV in Las Vegas.Berg, Dale:
KYMS,
1981-83; KBRT,
1983; KOCM,
1983-84 and 1987-91; KYMS,
1991-92. Dale is working nights at KDES-Palm Springs as Michael Wood.

BERGER, Ed:
KEZY, 1979; KWIZ,
1980-85; KFI, 1995-2003. Ed Berger, beloved broadcaster,
teacher and one of the nicest people in LARadio, died December 9,
2003 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 43.

The native Californian married fellow AirWatch colleague
Peg Stewart just seven months before his death. In the
early 1980s, Ed was part of the morning drive team at KWIZ with
Ronni Richards and Ed Nix. In addition to his
weekend news work at KFI, Ed was a full-time radio broadcasting
instructor at Fullerton College. He worked at KEZY and KWIZ before
turning his attention to weekend news work and full-time teaching.

Ed was born in Torrance
and grew up in Lancaster. He listened to Antelope Valley radio and
remembered, "Gosh, I can do that. But, of course, it was Lancaster radio."
Ed went to Antelope Valley City College and Fullerton College. At KWIZ, Ed
was part of the morning drive team with Ronni Richards and
Ed Nix. "The fact was I did a bit of everything. I did the
news, fill-in, remotes and even morning drive." In 1985, there was a major
personnel change at KWIZ and Ed made a decision. "I didn't want to bounce
around from radio station to radio station, so I got out."

For the next decade Ed worked at Creative Media in Cypress.

“So sorry to hear of the passing of Ed Berger, emailed Roger Marsh.
“We worked together [briefly] one semester at Fullerton College and I
remember him to be a class act and a true professional. He will truly be
missed . . . but never forgotten.”

“OUCH!!! I am very saddened by the news,” wrote former KFI talk show host
Rabbi Mentz. “He was such a pleasure to work with! His soul
lives on in all that remember the class act that Ed brought to the radio.
May G-d bless his wife Peg during these rough times, and bless the memory of
Ed Berger.

Pat Mathews wrote: “I am shocked! I worked with Ed many
times when he was an engineer for Tim Keenan. I am deeply
saddened and feel very badly for Peg. I had no idea he was sick.”

“Sad news,” emailed KBIG’s Bryan Simmons. “I lost a parent
to the same type of cancer and can attest that it's an aggressive and most
painful form of the disease. My sincere condolences to Ed's wife Peg and all
those who knew him. I had the pleasure of working with Ed those few times
when he'd fill-in for Mike Nolan at KOST and he was not
only a professional, but a good guy as well.”

KBIG’s
Lori Ryan wrote: “You know how our hearts were broken over the death of
Mark Denis? History repeats itself with Ed Berger. We've
been blessed to know Ed, he was always kind and upbeat and never, ever said
a bad thing about anyone. God bless Ed Berger. He made the world a better
place.” Berger, Hal: KMPC; KHJ.
The baseball announced died February 6, 1980.Berger, Stew: KQLH, 1986-88; KWIZ, 1988-91;
KHTX, 1992-94; KFRG, 1995-96; KOLA, 1997. Since 1998, he's been with what is
now Total Traffic Network/LA, doing news at stations including KFI, and now
does the news on KRLA and KTIE.
Berk,
Peter: KIKF, 1981-83; KFAC, 1983-86; KPWR, 1986-88; KZLA, 1988-91; KABC,
1991-97; XTRA/fm, 1997-98; KFSD / KCEO / KSPA, 1998-99. Peter is
president of Berk Marketing.Berman, Averill: KGFJ. Averill was murdered
by sportscaster Stan Duke in 1969.Berman, Dr.
Jenn: KYSR, 2004-05. Dr. Jenn hosted an evening therapy show every night on
"STAR 98.7." She has a practice in Beverly Hills and will host a new reality
celebrity couples therapy tv show in 2012.

BERNADETTE: KRTHAM/FM, 1980-90; KKBT, 1990; KJLH, 1991-94; KKHJ/KBUE,
1994-97. Born Irma Molina in the
San Gabriel
Valley,
Bernadette went to
Citrus
College and graduated with
a degree in communication from Cal State Fullerton. During her
senior year she started a ten-year relationship with the RKO/Beasley
outlet. She began at KHJ when it was a Country format. She was Bob Hamilton's assistant when he was national music
director for RKO.

Bernadette worked under Phil Hall during the KRTH
callletter and format
change staying with the stations during the RKO-Beasley-Liberman days.Bernadette was programming coordinator for KRTH AM&FMfrom 1986 to 1990 and was the first and only female on Smokin'
Oldies/"K-Earth," when she hosted the "All Request and Dedication
Show." She moved on to "the Beat" in 1990 to work as promotion
coordinator with Liz Kiley and later to KJLH. After
three years as the marketing director for Spanish KKHJ/KBUE/KWIZ, in
early 1997 she joined KUPR-San Diego. She is a massage
therapist in Gresham, Oregon.

Bernal, Raul: KLAX, 2000-01. Raul works mornings at Spanish KLAX as
"Dona Mela."Bernard, Joe: KFWB, 1965-66. Joe was pd at
KFWB. Unknown.Bernardini, Tony: KROQ, 1987-90. Tony
was gm at WBCN-Boston since 1978 and from 1987 to 1990 he was
the gm of 'BCN and KROQ. The San Diego native would spend two
weeks a month at each station. In late 2003, Tony became vp,
Infinity/Boston, a consulting position.Bernhart, Bruce: KNX, 1981-91. Bruce
broadcast the evening news at KNX. He performs with the
String Fever Bluegrass Band in Northfield, Minnesota and is
an executive headhunter.

(Art Bell, Larry Barajas, Todd Baker, and Adrienne Bard)

Bernstein,
Bob: KMEN/KGGI, 1995-96. Unknown.Bernstein, Sheryl: KTWV, 1993-94. Sheryl has
a very active voiceover career.Berry,
Chris: KNX 1982-86; KSPN, 2009-10. Chris left KNX and spent the next 10 years
at CBS Radio at the Washington News Bureau and WBBM-Chicago. From 1996 to 2002
he was vp/Radio for ABC News New York. He went on to president/gm of ABC-owned
WMAL-Washington, DC. He was appointed general manager at KSPN in early 2009
and left in September 2010. Chris is now svp of 24/7 news service.Berry,
Reed: KIEV; KRLA, 1998-99. "The Traffic Guy" hosted a traffic and general
topics weekend talk show on KRLA until the summer of 1999. Reed currently
serves as a contributing editor to the Web site LACar.com and he is the
driving safety expert for VideoJug.com.Bertolucci, Robin: KFI/KLAC/KXTA,
2002-15. Robin joined Clear Channel/LA AM stations
as director of programming in February 2002. She was voted #1 Best Off-Air
LARP of 2006.Bie, Peter: KIQQ, 1985-88. Peter
is a pastor in Summerland, near Santa Barbara.Bienne,
Simone: KROQ, 1011-12. Simone, the British sex therapist radio and tv
personality, was part of "Loveline" at KROQ with Dr. Drew
Pinsky and Pyscho Mike Catherwood. She left when her contract was up in late
2012.Big Boy: KPWR,
1994-2015. Big Boy works morning drive at
"Power 106."Bigby,
Tom: KFI, 1982. Tom was operations director at Sports WXYT-Detroit and in
the spring of 2011 he departed CBS after 23 years. He is now a consultant.Biggs, Jeff: KXTA/XTRA
Sports, 1997-2006; KMPC, 2007; KLAA, 2008-09; KSPN, 2011-15. Jeff works at
all-Sports 710/KSPN.Big Watusi: SEE Mark MendozaBill, Brother: KACE, 1963-69; KUTE, 1973;
KGFJ, 1978; KEZY, 1978-79; KIIS, 1979-93; KMLT, (Lite
92.7FM), 2000-01. "Brother Bill" worked at the
Riverside "Lite 92.7FM" outlet until early 2001.Billy the Kid: KIKF, 1994-2002;
KSPA, 2006-08. Billy worked
at KSPA in the Inland Empire until 2008.Bingenheimer, Rodney: KROQ,
1976-2015.
Rodney has always seemed a step ahead of various trends from
the English invasion to glitter to punk rock. He has been
dubbed "Mayor of Sunset Strip" and owned the
English Disco. He's worked at KROQ weekends for decades.Bingham, Bob: XTRA, 1960. Bob was managing
editor at XTRA News. Unknown.Bingman,
Frank: KLAC. KGIL. Frank was the announcer on the Straight Arrow
radio show that ran on Mutual from 1949 to 1951 to sell Nabisco Shredded Wheat
cereal. He was also the announcer on Swan Song. He left Los Angeles
when he retired and went back to live in the West Virginia area to be near is
son. He died there. Bingo, Mike: KSRF, 1985. Unknown.Binkowski,
Brooke: KNX, 2006-07; KPCC, 2007-12. Brooke is a news reporter at
KPCC.Binn, Stacy: KABC, 1986. Stacy worked for
Metro Traffic in Washington, DC. Her wit and unusual voice made listening to
traffic reports a pleasure. She died November 1, 2013 after a long battle
with the complications from cancer treatments. She was 61.

(Carl Brazell and B. Bailey Brown)

BIONDI,
Dick: KRLA,
1963 and 1965-67. Born in New York,
Dick spent three months with KRLA in 1963, while waiting for a job
with Mutual Broadcasting and rejoined the Pasadena
station in 1965, from Chicago
(he was the original nite jock at WLS). He billed himself as the
“ugliest and skinniest disc jockey in the world” and “The Wild
Itralian.”

In 1961, Dick won the Gavin Top 40
Disc Jockey of the Year Award. Perry Allen wrote of
Dick: “Some of us endured the music as we focused primarily on
tripping over our own ego devices. Others held the music at arm’s
length and attempted to make it into some kind of unemotional
reference point. Dick Biondi merged with the music. And, by doing
so, he solidly coalesced with the listener. No wall. They simply
shared. He and his listeners were Siamese twins…joined at the never
endings of integrity. This, when bullshit was radio’s most important
product. He and a precious few rare others maintained a valid
personal posture. “Through it, radio itself was protected.

During the KRLA 30-year reunion, host
Casey Kasem introduced him: “Dick was one of the
most beloved personalities to ever open a mike on KRLA.”

In 1966, Billboard listed Dick as
the most popular late evening dj. In 1967, he returned to Chicago
and worked the midnight-to-dawn slot on WCFL. Dick is currently working at
WLS/fm-Chicago; in fact, he’s rebounded to Chicago
radio at least three times.

Birchum, Mr.: SEE Adam Carolla

BIRD, Bob: KRKD, 1962-70; KIIS; KHOF; KFSG.
Bob spent nearly 20
years on-air and
engineering stints at
KRKD, KIIS-AM, KHOF,
KFSG in Los Angeles, and
at KSBW in Salinas. He
died July 20, 2010, at the age of 77.

“His moniker at KIIS-AM
was ‘Bob Bird, the Music
Man,’” wrote his son
Brian Bird. “My dad also
did extensive voiceover
and commercial work
during that time. He
left radio in 1974 to
finish his Masters
Degree in theology at
Azusa Pacific University
after which he became a
hospital chaplain
working for nearly 20
years in that field at
Whittier Hospital,
Kaiser Hospital in Los
Angeles and St. Joseph's
Hospital in Orange
County.”

Bob’s son Brian has a
media career in
Hollywood and his
grandson, Cameron, is a
writer at Wired
Magazine.

BIRDFEATHER, Barbara: KMET, 1969-71; KPPC,
1971-73; KPFK, 1973-74. Barbara, best known as one of the early
female voices of Los Angeles “underground” radio, died April 26,
2009 following a long bout with
lung cancer. She was 69.

Born in Mt. Kisco, New York, Birdfeather worked as a professional astrologer, and wrote The
Birdfeather Astrological Space Book, published in 1969.
She wrote regular astrology columns for Cosmopolitan and Rags. "Barbara was an extremely kind
and understanding human and humane being,” recalls former
KMET program director Richard
Kimball,
“and one hell of a good dj. Birdfeather preceded me on the
air every night at KMET, before B. Mitchel
Reed took over that slot. We always had a pleasant, on-air chat
about the happenings of the day. Even though we were both
adamantly opposed to the Vietnam war going on at the time, I
never once heard her say anything negative about those
responsible for that conflict. She simply made her point
known by the music she chose to play.”

Later, Barbara continued writing about music for various publications, and
served as publicist for acts including Scottish blues rocker Alex Harvey. More
recently, Birdfeather had worked as a floral designer. Following a stint as a music reviewer
for the LA Times, since 1981 Barbara has been a
floral designer.

BIRRELL,
Harry: KFWB, 1968; KNX, 1968-99. Harry,
longtime veteran newsman and anchor
at KFWB and KNX, died May 26, 2013 of complications from lung
disease. He was 85.

A native of
Steubenville, Ohio, Harry was born March 5, 1928. He started his
broadcasting career at WBVP in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1949.
From there he moved to WEIR in Weirton, West Virginia. Then on to
WSTV in his home town, KLIF-Dallas, WNOE-New Orleans, KCBQ-San
Diego, WINW-Canton, Ohio and WGBB-Merrick, Long Island, New York.

He joined KFWB, Group
W Westinghouse, before being called by CBS and KNXNewsradio in 1968.
He was hired as a news anchor and worked there for 25 years before
retiring in 1993. But not completely. For the next 5 1/2 years, from
his home studio, he continued to send in daily reports of Ventura
County news that were heard throughout the day on KNX.

Then, in January 1999, he completely retired after
nearly 50 years in radio broadcasting. Harry has been honored by the Radio
and Television News Association of Southern California with nine Golden
Mikes for his excellence in broadcasting. He has also been honored
repeatedly by the Greater Los Angeles Press Club, the Valley Press Club, the
Associated Press and United Press International. Harry has also received the
National Headliners Club Award for his coverage of the assassination of
Senator Robert Kennedy and has been honored by the Broadcast Communications
Department of California State University, San Francisco.

His highest honor was the Dupont-Columbia Award for
Excellence in Broadcast Journalism given to him by the Graduate School of
Journalism at Columbia University. Harry has also been called upon countless
times to do narrations for Panorama International Productions, TR
Productions and other video and audio production companies. He also had a
role in the Blake Edwards motion picture,
That's Life, starring Jack Lemmon
and Julie Andrews. He and his wife Emily were married for over 60 years.

Bisheff, Steve: KSPN, 2007. The former newspaper sports columnist for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and Orange County Register acts as an
"Insider" at KSPN.Bishop, Bob: KCSN, KUSC. Bob is now working at KHFM-Albuquerque.Bishop, Denny: KPOL, 1978. Denny is one of
the voiceover talents at KNBC/Channel 4.

(Jon Bruno, Howard Bloom,
Chris Berry and Jerry Bishop)

Bishop, Don: KIQQ, 1975; KMGX, 1994. Don is
working the Country format at Westwood One.Bishop, Jerry: KLAC, 1965; KFI, 1969-74;
KKDJ, 1975; KIIS, 1975-79; KGIL, 1983-85. Since the
mid-1980s, Jerry has been the voice of the Disney Channel.Bishop, Pat: KFI, 1934-71. Pat Bishop
passed away in the mid-1970s.Bishop, Robert: KPPC, 1969. Last heard,
Robert was living in San Diego.BJ: KEZY/KXMX,
1994-2000; KIIS, 2000-07. Bjorn "BJ" Dahl is the
Director of New
Media at CBS/LA.Bjerre,
Miriam: KNX, 1973-77; KFWB, 1979-95. Miriam retired in 1998 and she is living in
Connecticut.

BJORKLUND, Jennifer:
KFWB, 2014. Jennifer is a veteran broadcast news
anchor and reporter with 27 years in the business, the last 15 of
them in Los Angeles television. She spent 12 years with KNBC/Channel
4, five of those years anchoring Today in LA, according to
her website.

She co-hosted with Phil Hulett
on a midday show at KFWB until a format flip to all-Sports. Jennifer started her career in radio at
Cal Poly SLO’s radio station KCPR, where she was news director. Her
first real broadcast news job was morning drive anchor for the Santa
Maria ABC News radio station KUHL. From there she moved to Santa
Barbara, taking over as the morning anchor when the station’s news
anchor Linda Nunez departed to KNX.

Jennifer later moved to tv, working at KEYT first as a
writer/producer and weekend reporter, then as morning anchor, and
finally as weekend anchor. She arrived in Los Angeles with an offer
to cover breaking news in the helicopter for KTTV, flying in SkyFox
during the station’s early morning newscast and Good Day LA.

Blabon, Duffy: KBLA, 1966; KGBS, 1974. Duffy
was general manager at KBLA. Unknown.Black, Guy:
KJLH, 2007-09. Guy worked mornings at KJLH until he was replaced by Steve
Harvey in late summer of 2009.

BLACK, Tre: KKBT, 1995-96.
The former KKBT
personality
died of a massive heart attack
on March 7, 2010, at the age of 41.
He was found dead in the shower
by a friend.

Tre was praised as
an innovator. He was WaxMaster
Torey and ruled the airwaves in
underground hip-hop back in
North Carolina. He went on to
work at WJLB-Detroit. In the
last year of his life he touched
many people through SourceEnergyRadio.com with his team of passionate,
loving teachers who supported
him through his journey.

Blackburn,
Dan: KNX, 1972-76. Dan is hosting two syndicated television news/interview
programs in Los Angeles, a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times,
a recognized and widely published outdoor and a wildlife photographer. Blackburn, Michael: KBCA, 1976. Unknown.

BLACKBURN,
Valerie: KFWB, 2007-15. Valerie was
Controller of the CBS/LA cluster and general manager at KFWB, for seven
years. She resigned from both positions in early 2014 to do some traveling and
reconnect with friends and family.

When she was asked
if there was more to the story, Valerie commented: “Nothing more
complicated than I’m just ready to take some time off. I’ve seen
you do it a few times over the years, now it’s my turn! Timing is
good right now to do some travelling and reconnect with family and
friends. I’ll wander back to radio at some point – I’ll always be
a radio gal.”

Valerie has spent seven years at the CBS/LA cluster. Before joining CBS,
Valerie spent seven years with Susquehanna Radio where she served as
market controller before being elevated to director of business
operations for the San Francisco market. Prior to that, Valerie held a
similar position for 11 years with Jacor Broadcasting in Denver.

BLACKWELL,
Mr.: KABC, 1972-74; KIEV,
1975-81. Mr. Blackwell died
October 19, 2008, at the age of 86.
The outrageous fashion critic was born
Richard
Sylvan Selzer, but as Mr. Blackwell he was best known for
his annual list of Top 10 Worst Dressed celebrities. He was
a talk radio host at KABC from 1972-74 and KIEV from
1975-81. He died of complications from an intestinal
infection.

He abandoned an acting career in 1958 and switched to
fashion design. Mr. Blackwell issued his first
tongue-in-cheek list of Hollywood fashion disasters for
1960. His notoriety grew steadily over the years as he took
Hollywood’s female celebrities to task for what he saw as
their failure to dress in good taste. He told a reporter
that most of the women he attacked on his Worst-Dressed List
were people he genuinely admired for their talent, if not
their dress sense.

His celebrity landed him on tv shows such as Matlock and
Matt Houston and he became a darling on the tv talkshow
circuit. Mr. Blackwell recounted in his autobiography, From Rags
to Bitches, that he had suffered a troubled, poverty-ridden
childhood in which he was variously a truant, thief and prostitute.

BLANCHARD, Red: KABC, 1956; KXLA, 1956; KPOP, 1957-58; KFWB, 1959-60; KNX, 1960-65. Richard Bogardus “Red” Blanchard
passed away on June 16,
2011, at his home in Escondido. He was 91. Death was
attributed to complications in the recovery from recent cancer surgery.

Born
in Gardner, Massachusetts, Red (nickname came from his shock of red hair)
grew up in Southern California. As a little kid he was fascinated with
building crystal sets and he became a ham operator. He loved music and
played trombone during the era of “swing music.” Red started his radio
career after a stint in the army and he joined KPRO-Riverside in December
1945. He started the “14-40 Club.” In 1950 he went to KCBQ-San Diego and a
year later was working at KLS-Las Vegas.

While toiling in the backyard of
his Sherman Oaks home and talking on a cellular phone in 1996, Red recalled
his stop in Vegas: “I was there during the atomic bomb testing and I
recorded the sound of the blast and fed it to the networks. I was called a
heroic, brave reporter for taking on this assignment.” With a laugh, Red
said, “The fact of the matter, all I did was hang a microphone out the
window of the radio station. Hardly brave or heroic, but nonetheless.”

He recounted his early
fame: “I had my greatest radio success in San Francisco. I worked at KCBS
from 1951 to 1955 and was written up in Life Magazine, Time and other major publications. By 1955 it had run its course and
I returned to Los Angeles.” He went to KPOP to do mornings and while he was
there, Red recorded Cape Canaveral, Pts 1 & 2 on Pirate Records. A
year later on the very day he was let go from KPOP, he was fired from the
“graveyard shift on KFWB. In 1960 he became a staff announcer at KNX for
five years. “I was fired due to illness. The boss got sick of me.”

Red had always been interested in the
technical side of radio and was hired on as an engineer at KHJ/Channel 9,
working there for 15 years until his retirement in 1980. Red missed “the
contact with the public” from his radio days but enjoyed the way things
were. Red’s wife died in 1986 at age 60 after a long illness.

BLASSNIG,
Ron. Ron was a beloved CBS Radio
engineer who was responsible for KTWV, KRTH, and KLSX. He
died of a kidney tumor on October 30, 2008. He was 62.

”Born and raised
in Seattle, Ron discovered in high school a strong interest
in broadcasting, listening to the big stations in Seattle
and sitting up at night tuning in the far away signals from
exotic locations like San Francisco’s Big 610 KFRC and KREM-Spokane,”
wrote his CBS Radio colleague Jim Blakely. “Ron
started hanging with the announcers and promo people working
at Seattle’s Top 40 radio stations collecting 45s and
getting his feet wet. Ron was hooked. Radio would become his
life.”

"His technical skill with tubes and microphones was
well-known but many may be surprised to know Ron was also an
excellent photographer,” continued Blakely. “His knowledge
of cameras and film and lighting allowed him to meet many
very attractive ladies who loved modeling for portraits.”

Ron worked as a
dj and engineer in the Seattle area before moving to KLOK-San Jose
and becoming the station’s chief engineer. He moonlighted at Ampex
as a lab technician and gained his legendary experience and skill in
tape machine technology.

”My friendship with Ron began in 1980,” recalled Blakely. “We met
when he came on board at 93/KHJ. Prior to his arrival his resume
included a doctored photo of the Golden Gate Bridge at high tide –
mostly submerged. That spoke volumes about Ron’s wacky sense of
humor. In the early 80s, we were preparing for the big studio
build-out and move into brand-new facilities which today house KROQ
and JACK/fm on Venice Boulevard. His skills as an engineer
dovetailed well into the team that Bob Kanner and Lynn Duke
was assembling for the big project.”

After a decade at KHJ and K-EARTH, Ron left for eventual chief
duties at KLAC / KZLA and later 1580/KDAY. He eventually returned to
CBS Radio. “Ron was one of the most upbeat personalities I’ve ever
encountered. He was the same on the air or off. He always had a
story and a smile for everyone he met. We remained friends for 28
years. During the difficult period of suffering through the final
stages of his illness he was still optimistic and reported to work
nearly every day. Even though his diminished strength reduced his
ability for physically demanding tasks, he was still able to do
precision wiring and document administration.”

Blatt,
Steve: KUSC, 2004-05. Steve does weekend work at the Classical music
station.

BLATTER, Steve: KLYY, 1997-98. Steve is
vp of music programming at Sirius Satellite Network. He named one of the Top 15 major-market
radio programmers in America by Radio Ink magazine.

Blatter held the
position of Vice President, Programming for Big City Radio, where he
was responsible for formatting and branding all of the company's
radio properties (located in New York, Los Angeles,
and Chicago).

During his six-year tenure at Big City Radio,
Blatter conceptualized and implemented the programming strategy for the
Country formatted, Y-107 in New York and the Alternative Rock
formatted, Y-107 (KLYY). Weekly audience at Y-107 (NY) rose from 150,000 to
over 500,000 in only six months, making it the 5th most-listened-to Country
music station in America. Weekly audience at Y-107 (LA) rose from 50,000 to
over 700,000 in just six months.

Blatter's success in formatting and branding new
products in highly competitive marketplaces, as well as his extensive
knowledge of traditional and new media, played an instrumental role in the
rapid growth of Big City Radio.

Blatter began his career
in media in 1986 at WXRK/dm (Infinity-owned) in New York City. That same year he became an air personality and the mds at
WVBR/fm-Ithaca, New York.

In 1988 Blatter moved on
to become the Music Director at New
York City's WYNY-FM (owned by NBC
and Westwood One), the most-listened-to Country radio station in America.

After four years at WYNY, Blatter was tapped as
director of programming for MJI Broadcasting. There he was responsible for
the content and packaging of 12 nationally syndicated programs in a wide
variety of radio formats. He also created, in conjunction with E!
Entertainment Television, the radio industry's first daily entertainment and
music news fax service. Additionally, Blatter produced live backstage
coverage of the Grammy Awards, the Country Music Association Awards and the
MTV Video Music Awards.

Blatter has a B.S. in
Economics-Management from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

BLATTNER,
Buddy: KMPC, 1962-68. Buddy was the radio voice
of the NBA's St. Louis Hawks in the 1950s and a longtime baseball
broadcaster including play-by-play for the Los Angeles/California Angels
from 1962-68. He died September 4, 2009, following a long illness. He was
89.

Blattner also played parts of five seasons in the major leagues and was
a world table tennis champion, according to an obit in a St. Louis
publication where he had been living.. He founded the "Buddy Fund" in 1962,
an organization that continues to supply athletic equipment to
underprivileged children in the St. Louis area. Buddy was a table-tennis
whiz in his youth and won the world men's doubles championship in 1936. He
made his big-league debut as a Cardinals second baseman in 1942, although he
had only 1 hit in 23 at-bats. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-45, and
returned as the New York Giants regular second baseman in 1946, batting .255
with 11 homers. Blattner played parts of three more seasons for the Giants
and the Philadelphia Phillies before retiring. For his career, he appeared
in 272 games with a .247 batting average. Blattner turned to broadcasting,
teaming with Dizzy Dean on St. Louis Browns' radio broadcasts and then
announcing the Game of the Week on ABC television and later on CBS. He
joined Harry Caray in the Cardinals' broadcast booth for the 1960 season.
After six seasons with the Angels, he became the play-by-play announcer for
the Kansas City Royals from 1969-75.

Mark started at KMPC in 1968 and
was promoted to pd in 1972. After major changes to the format in early
1979 where he had to fire some high profile personalities, he said:
“We’re not running a museum here. Radio is a living, breathing organism
and we owe it to our listeners to try to reflect a contemporary
lifestyle, to let them know what’s going on in the real world.”

Mark joined Merv Griffin Radio as
vp/gm and three years later bought KWIP-Salem, Oregon with Roger Carroll.
“We sold the station in 1989 for a lot more than we paid for it.” Before joining
KMPC, Mark was pd at KEX-Portland and assistant pd at KSFO-San Francisco.

”In recent years, Mark taught
fifth grade in the Alhambra School District. He loved working with children. It
was hard for him to be ill, but harder to be away from his students. Mark loved
helping young people. I know that first hand,” wrote Sharon Benoit. Mark
suffered from a life threatening lung disease.

Block, Alex Ben: KNX, 1999. The former
editor of The Hollywood Reporter was the showbiz reporter at KNX.
He's now connected with an entertainment website and continues to write for THR.Block, Susan: KIEV, 1985-87; KFOX, 1987-93;
KLSX, 1998. Susan hosted a "singles connection"
show. In 2005, she hosted a DVD called 'Squirt Salon,' featuring images of
the elusive G-spot.Bloom, Andy: KLSX, 1991-93. Andy
is operations manager at WPHT-Philadelphia.

(Robin
Bertolucci, Rob Brookler, and Larry Burnett)

Bloom, Howard: KLAC/KMET/KTWV, 1977-87.
Howard started out as a screener for Arbogast and Margolis at
KLAC. He worked part-time after his work at a liquor store.
He worked his way up through the sales ranks at Metromedia
and was there for the end of the "Mighty Met."
Howard died of a heart attack in November 1993. He had been
working as gsm at Metro Traffic at the time of his death.Bloom, Lisa: KABC, 2000-01. Lisa practices law
with her mother Gloria Allred and she worked at Court TV.Blore, Chuck: KFWB, 1958-63; KIIS. Chuck
owns an award-winning advertising agency.Blow, Kurtis: KPWR, 1995-98. Unknown.Blue,
Bobby: KNAC, 1972-76; KMET. Bobby national media director of New Life Ad
Agency, which produces and places 30 minute block programming and placing time
buys nationally. Blumberg,
Loren: KPWR, 1994-95; KACD, 1995-98; KSSE/KSSC/KSSD, 1998-2007. Loren is
sales manager at Hero Broadcasting.Bo, Jason:
KDLD, 2003; KIIS, 2004-05. Jason worked swing at KIIS/fm.Bodine, Buster: KPWR, 1987-89. Buster has an active voiceover career
working from his home studio for such clients as Guitar Center and Warner
Bros. Records.Bodington, Dave: KFI, 1968-69; KIEV, 1977-78; XPRS,
1978-80. Dave works at Voice of America in
Washington, DC, as a broadcast technician.Boerner,
Rich: KLSX, 1997-2009. Rich is creative director and voiceover for CBS
Interactive and gm/host of HotTalkLA.com.

(Jon Badeux, Lance Ballance, Jim Backus, and Rico Banana)

Bohrman,
Stan: KLAC, 1967-68; KHJ; KNX; KGIL, 1985; KFWB, 1990-94. Born November 9, 1930, Stan grew up in
Van Nuys. He started as a dj at KFRC-San Francisco and
eventually abandoned music to pursue news broadcasting and
was part of Voice of America. Stan became a local fixture on
local tv news as an investigative reporter and anchor. During
his career he hosted talk shows on radio and tv. Stan had a
heart attack on October 13, 1994, and died at the Tarzana
Medical Center at the age of 63.

Paola has been a sports columnist at The Arizona Republic
since 1995. She was also a reporter at the Los Angeles Daily
News and Camarillo Dally News. Paola graduated from
the University of Illinois at urbana-Champaign.

She was one of the reporters at the 2012 Fiesta Bowl.

Boland, Katie: KTZN 1997. Unknown.Bolles, The Real Don: KSRF, 1990-92. Don is
a free-lance writer and appears frequently in the LA
Weekly.Bollinger, Russ: KIKF, 1987. Unknown.Boman, Tommy: KXTA,
1997-99; KFWB 2004-06. Tommy was the producer of the Dodgers Radio Network for KFWB until the fall
of 2006. He’s now the vp of Broadcast Operations for Learfield Sports based in
Missouri overseeing the broadcast production of 49 college sports networks.Bonaduce, Danny: KYSR,
1999-2005; KSLX, 2006-09. The former
member of the Partridge Family tv series, Danny
started mornings at "Star 98.7" with Jamie White on
September 15, 1999 and left July 1, 2005. He joined morning drive at KLSX
on January 2, 2007 and in early 2008 moved to a one-hour afternoon shift.
Danny went on to work morning drive at WYSP in Philadelphia until late
summer of 2011. In November 2011, he joined morning drive at KZOK-Seattle.Bond, Lyle: KHJ, 50s. Lyle died on a San Diego golf course
in the 1970s.

BOND,
Nancy. Nancy has been directing commuters through the maze of
Southern California freeways for over two decades. “When I first
began it was AirTraffic Communications. The company was owned by
Steve Springer from San Diego. He had a traffic service there and
wanted to expand into Orange County and the Inland Empire. Steve
hired me in January of 1989.”

Up to that point the only radio experience
that Nancy had was doing news on the Saddleback College station,
KSBR (88.5/fm). At the time that Air Traffic was launching, there
was already LA Network, owned by Rhonda Kramer, and Metro
Traffic, which was owned by a group based in Houston. Eventually
AirTraffic became a subsidiary of Jacor Communications, then Jacor
was taken over by Clear Channel Communications around 2000.

Eventually Nancy and her young staff took
over the news and traffic for a myriad of radio stations and radio
companies. Her reports have been heard on KFI, KOST, KGGI and KBIG.
But in the beginning, it was just Nancy and John Quinlan doing the
drive time reports.

Nancy didn’t get into the world of traffic
reporting until she was 40. She and her husband were on the ground
floor of the Microwave explosion in the 1970s, and for a decade
owned ‘Bond’s Microwave Oven Centers’ all over the Southland They
taught the senior citizens at Leisure World how to cook with the
microwave oven.

Nancy has twins. Her son, Clint, is the art
director for Nickelodeon's SpongeBob. Her daughter Amy taught in the Czech Republic and returned to the states in
2007. She's now in retail sales at Yankee Candle in the Irvine Spectrum.

Bonds,
John: KMPC, 1988; KNX, 1989. John is the publisher of the Taste of Vegas
Restaurant Guide and works at KSFN-Las Vegas.Bones: KNAC, 1991-92. Last heard, Bones was
working in Las Vegas.

BONFIETTI, Jayne:
KFI,
1998. The Cooking Babe died February 20,
2009, at the age 49.Jayne
had a nationally syndicated daily one-minute
radio recipe show called “The Qwik Cook”
that was heard on KFI in the late ’90s. She
described her show as “brainfood on the half
shell, a spicy tidbit to go.”

She
grew up in suburban New England with a mom
who could turn out dinner for a dozen
defensive linemen from her brother’s college
football team with an hour’s notice. Her
mother is Czech and Russian and her father
is Italian and Finnish. Raised Catholic and
culinarily confused, Jayne headed West to
date, join a sorority, and find her dining
destiny. She attended restaurant school and
became a restaurateur/caterer. The
experience prompted her to organize a
support group called Caterers In Recovery.

Jayne lived in San Diego with her husband
and four sons, ten chickens, four dogs, and
two sheep.

Bonilla,
Tera: KMVN, 2007-09. Tera worked middays at Movin' 93.9/fm until a format
flip to Spanish in early 2009.Bonk, Thomas: KMPC, 1992. Thomas is the golf
writer for the Los Angeles Times and is seen
frequently on golf telecasts.Boogerman: KROQ, 1994-95. Unknown.Bookasta, Gary: KROQ, 1973-78. Last heard,
Gary was a lobbyist in Washington, DC.

Booker,
Chris: KLSX/KAMP, 2009-15. Booker joined AMP Radio for middays from New York on June
1, 2009.Booker, Levi:
KJLH, 1979-84 and 1986 and 1992-2015. Levi hosts a weekend show at KJLH.Boone, Pat: KPZE, 1988; KJQI, 1993-94. Pat
appears at various entertainment events.Boortz, Neal: KGIL, 2007. Neal's syndicated show begins on KGIL (1260AM)
October 29, 2007.Bordonaro, Bob: KKGO, 1982-86; KCTD,
1998-99; KMZT, 2000-01. Bob left his post as the gsm at
Classical "K-Mozart" in the spring of 2001.

BORGERS, Helen: KLON/KKJZ, 1981-2015. Helen has spent 25 years at the all-Jazz station, KKJZ.
She works afternoon drive. Helen's love of jazz may have been instilled at
birth as she was born in one of the hotbeds of the music, Kansas
City. But, more likely, it was engendered by her older brother, Ken,
whose playing of John Coltrane, Gerald Wilson, Charlie Byrd, and
Buddy Rich - Helen's earliest memories of jazz - came through the
walls of his bedroom into hers.

Her father taught radio and television at
USC, Ken graduated from USC with a degree in broadcasting, and her
mother, too, had been in radio, back in the '40s in New York. She
was a copy writer at WMCA and WOR, and worked with budding jazz
journalists Leonard Feather and Barry Ulinov at the studios. So,
jazz and radio were in Helen's blood. Helen's intention, however,
was a life in the theatre. She majored in theatre at Cal State Long
Beach, and her only radio work was doing weekly radio dramas on the
student station, KSUL.

But Ken became program director of KLON a few years
before CSULB became the licensee. Ken recruited Helen to help out at the
station, even giving her a weekly show featuring vocal music. When the move
was made to the university, and Ken streamlined the format to 24-hour jazz
and blues, Helen was part of the deal. She became the weekend jazz host,
Saturdays and Sundays from noon to five. A year of that and she became the
weekday afternoon drive host, eventually moving to the morning drive when
Chuck Niles came from KKGO to do afternoons. After her second year as a
host, Helen was also made music director, interacting with the record label
promoters, building and maintaining the station's jazz library.

In addition to her drive-time and library duties,
Helen began a weekly three-hour interview program called The Artist's
Corner. Each week, a different guest artist would come to the studio,
choose their favorite recordings from the KLON library or bring them from
home and, between their selected tracks, discuss these recordings and their
lives with Helen. The guests included local greats as well as out-of-town
legends, including Horace Silver, Gerald Wilson, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln,
Steve Allen, Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Harris, Tony Williams, all of
the Marsalis family members, and many, many others. Lots of the young giants
got early exposure on this program, including Joshua Redman, Nicholas
Payton, Mark Whitfield, Brad Mehldau, Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick, Jr.,
to name only a few. For over ten years Helen hosted this show, building a
reputation as the station's number one interviewer.

From 1991 to 1994, Helen was pd for a European jazz
service called Eurojazz, which served the Netherlands via satellite from a
special studio built in KLON's facilities. Along with designing and
coordinating locally-produced jazz shows and European-produced shows, she
would do her local drive-time show each day at KLON, and then go up the hall
to broadcast to Europe. Eventually the service relocated to London, and
Helen moved to England to set up the studios and reorganize the programming.
After a year abroad, she returned to California and KLON, where she has been
ever since.

In her capacity as a jazz broadcaster, Helen has
been invited to give pre-concert lectures at various performing arts
centers, has served on panels in jazz conventions all over the world, and
has lectured about the history of jazz in middle schools, high schools, and
colleges. She has also written articles for international jazz publications.
She regularly emcees concerts, festivals, and club dates throughout southern
California.

Borgers, Ken: KLON, 1978-2000;
KCRW, 2005-09. Ken left as the afternoon voice on "All Things Considered" at
KCRW in the summer of 2009.Boros,
Michelle: KAMP, 2010-15. Michelle started middays at AMP RADIO on March 1,
2010.Borquez,
Bob: KFSG, 1980-86. For the past nine years, Bob has been growing the
syndication of The Dave Ramsey Show.Botta, Sam:
KFI, 2004-05. Sam left the KFI news department in early summer 2005.Botula, Mike: KNOB, 1966-67; KFWB, 1968-71;
KRLA, 1971-72; KMPC, 1972-77. In the spring of 2001, California Governor
Gray Davis appointed Mike to the Department of Child Support Services as
Assistant Director of Information and Public Affairs in Sacramento. Since
then, Mike left state service to work as a media consultant in Sacramento. Now
retired and living in Stockton, he has gone back to school, and tends his
website mikebotula.com. Bowden,
George: KSGV, 1963-65; KGGK, KNOB 1965-67. After a career in tv, George
taught in the Los Angeles City College Radio-TV-Film Department from 1975
until his retirement in 1995. Bower, Jayne: KFWB, 1990-93. Jayne is
working at WWJ-Detroit. She and husband Jeff live in
Ann Arbor, have two pre-teen boys. Jayne produces a
"Labor Pains" feature which is cool.Bowers, Jason: KIIS, 2001;
KYSR, 2004-07. Jason worked swing at STAR 98.7. He's now with the AC outlet
at Dial-Global.Bowker, Bill: KNAC, 1970; KYMS, 1972-74;
KWST, 1975-77; KROQ, 1978-79. Bill works at KRSH-Santa Rosa.Bowman, Don: KBBQ, 1970. Don is living in Branson,
Missouri.

BOWMAN,
Lisa: KABC,
1983-87; KMPC,
1987; KLAC,
1990. In 1983, KABC conducted a much-publicized talent search for a
host to work with Bud Furillo and Tommy
Hawkins on “SportsTalk.” Lisa was runner-up; however, one
month later the winner, Merrie Rich, was fired and
Lisa was offered the job.
As the second-place
finisher, she won a trip to Puerto Rico, winning both first and second place prizes.

Lisa, from LaCanada, was a tv
actress. She also got the afternoon drive “SportsTalk” job on KABC and later
hosted the “Sports Nut” show on KLAC with Gabe Kaplan.
She covered the Rams on KMPC.

She did boxing
commentary alongside Rich Marotta and Lisa
co-hosted Stroh's Circle of Sports with actor Robert
Conrad.

For a time she lived in Flagstaff
while her husband Chuck Bowman directed many episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
and Stingray.

Lisa was a cabaret singer and appeared in a number of stage
productions. She was in the first national company of A Chorus
Line in los Angeles, Chicago, and Honolulu. Other productions
include The Dybbuk at the Mark Taper Forum and in the
Dorothy Chandler production of Sound of Music, Lisa played
Sister Margaretta and was the understudy to Florence
Henderson.

Bowman, Paul: KFOX, 1986. Unknown.Boxer,
Jack: SEE Joe TerryBoyd, Donnell: KKTT, 1979; KGFJ, 1980;
KLAC/KZLA; KABC. The well-like KFWB sales executive died in late 2001.Boyd, Ed: KKDJ/KIIS, 1973-79. Ed is a
consultant living in Miami Beach. He sells Medicare supplement and health
insurance, as well as playing golf in semi-retirement. Boyd, Glen: XTRA, 1959. Unknown.Boyle, John: KLSX,
1998-2009. John was co-host of the syndicated John & Jeff Show that was heard
on the third shift at KLSX until a format flip to AMP RADIO in early 2009.Bozeman,
Victor: KFAC, 1969-70. Victor Emmanuel Bozeman grew up in Kansas City. He
arrived in Southern California from WNYC-New York to pursue an acting
career. When he left KFAC he became an NBC/TV staff announcer with a
lifetime contract. Victor appeared in several tv series including: Ironside and Get Smart. He died November 26, 1986 at the age of
57.Bozzi, Dick: KRTH, 1974. Dick is a former
program director at KRTH. Unknown.Bracken, Dennis: KNX, 1963-77. Dennis
collapsed shortly after returning from Santa Anita racetrack
in the spring of 1977 where he had done the "color"
for the KNX radio broadcast of the Santa Anita Derby.

(Brother Bill, Michael Baisden,
Brent, and Jason Bowers)

BRADBURY, B.R.:
KIQQ, 1974-75; KHJ, 1977;
KPOL/KZLA, 1977-79. B.R. Bradbury, best known as the
newsman with Robert W. Morgan, died of a massive heart attack
January 17, 2001. He had the heart attack while driving
home from a meeting. A motorist saw his car go off the road
into a ditch and called 911. The car had automatic door and
window locks, which wouldn't open from the outside so the
paramedics had to break in. They tried to revive him for over
an hour but to no avail, according to a family member.

B.R.
was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on September 4, 1942, and
he spent several years at Grays Harbor College. His first job
was at KHOK-Hoquiam, Washington. In 1965 B.R. moved to
KOL-Seattle, then in 1970 to KFRC-San Francisco. It was at
KFRC that he changed his on-air name from Bill Munson to his
real name Bill Bradbury. (According to Frank Thompson, B.R.
grabbed onto his first two initials at the last second when
he began his first on-air newscast at KFRC. Apparently there
was another Bill on the news staff.)

In 1972 B.R.
transferred to KHJ, where he was the newsman for Robert W. Morgan. He went
with Robert to KIQQ ("K-100"). At the 1973 annual Billboard Radio Programming Forum, B.R. was
voted best newsman. In 1980 B.R. returned to Seattle and
worked at KJR. In 1985 he joined CKLG-Vancouver, B.C. as news
director. He retired from radio in 1995 and opened his own
insurance agency in Blaine, Washington. Lan Roberts, a
longtime friend and colleague remembered B.R. "He was a
true professional and one of the nicest people you would ever
meet in radio or tv." B.R. was 58.

Bradley: KROQ, 1997-98; KYSR,
1998-2006.
Bradley worked afternoons at "Star 98.7" until 2006. SEE Bradley
WrightBradley, Bill: KLAC, 1956-57; KDAY, 1958-60;
KLAC, 1960. Bill retired to Palm Springs and died July 4,
1997.Bradley,
Tim: KCRW, 1978; KMGG, KIEV. Tim is involved in the world of
voiceover and hosted "All Strings Considered" at KCSN.Bradley, Wayne: KMGX, 1992-94. Wayne is working for Smooth
Jazz WGLX in Wilmington, North Carolina.
He's also executive director at Triovisions.

(Dick Biondi, Neale Blase, Laura Brodian, and Peter Berk)

Bradshaw,
Terry: KXTA, 1999-2000. The former Pittsburgh Steeler QB
worked a noon talk show beginning August 23, 1999, at
"XTRA Sports 1150." He left following the Super
Bowl in 2000.Brady, Jim: KLAC, 1987-88. Jim, one of
Toronto's great morning drive jocks from 1973 until 1987, was
working morning drive at WRVF/WCFA-Toledo. He died June 5, 2014, following a
four-year battle with cancer. He was thought to be in his late 60s.Brager, Stan: KLON, 1997-2001. Stan hosted a
Sunday morning jazz show at KLON.

BRAILER,
Charlie: KFWB, 1969-93. Charlie, longtime anchor at all-News
station KFWB, died November 7, 2007. He had been part of the
station’s morning drive for many years until his retirement in
1993. He underwent successful heart transplant surgery in the early
2000s, but continued to battle other medical concerns.

Charlie was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, and was a
journalism major at the university of Maryland. After graduation he served
as a Voice of America producer for the Far East. Charlie went into the army
and was stationed at Fort Huachuca in Tombstone, Arizona and was editor of
the post newspaper. After the service, he joined Mutual Broadcasting as an
engineer and eventually joined Westinghouse in their Washington, DC bureau.
That assignment brought him to Southern California. “Broadcast news changed
in 1963. When I got into broadcast journalism it was not entertainment and
it was not to titillate. I was standing in Arlington cemetery watching a man
dig a hole where they would bury John Kennedy. President Kennedy personified
a mood of optimism. With his assassination I knew things would never be
quite the same again. Americans became disillusioned.” Charlie and his wife
retired to the Antelope Valley where he ran very successful pet-sitting
service. “I feel fortunate to have been a reporter on some historic events
over a four-decade period.”

(Billy the Kid, Lee Barry,
Bobby Blue,
and Burt Brown)

Brainard,
Buzz: KZLA, 2000-05. Buzz left Country KZLA mornings in late 2005.Brainin,
Janet: KZLA/KPWR, 2000-07. Janet was made DOS of the two Emmis/LA stations
in early 2004.Branch,
Heather: KNX, 2009-11. Heather broadcasts weekend traffic at KNX.Brand, Ed: KMPC, 1987; KLAC. Ed works the
Adult Standards format at Westwood One.Brandmeier,
Jonathon: KLSX, 1998-2000; KCBS/fm, 2004-05. Jonathon worked middays at the
FM talk station, KLSX, and left the station in the fall of 2000. He returned
to the Southland for mornings at "Arrow 93" in the Spring of 2004 and in
March 2005 the station flipped to jockless JACK/fm. In early 2012, he
joined mornings at WGN-Chicago. When Chicago's 87.7/fm flipped to Sports in
early 2014, he did mornings until November 2014.Brandon,
Leah: KYSR, 1995-2001; KIIS, 2001-04; KFI, 2004-07. Leah is a free-lance
voice imager and works in the South. She co-hosts a podcast with John
Zieglar.Brandt, Gary: KPOL, 1963-70; KIIS, 1970-72.
Gary is the director of marketing at WOR-New York.Brandt, Michael: KROQ, 1983.
When Michael left KROQ, he became general sales manager for a number of
stations in San Francisco, including Live105/KITS, K101, and Susquehanna
Broadcasting Company. Since early 2014, he's been a realtor with Jonathan's
Landing Realty in Jupiter, Florida.

(Mike Botula, Amanda Brinkley, Dave Beasing, and
Frank Bresee)

Branson, Bob:
KFI, 1969. Unknown.Brattin, Corbett: KRTH, 1991-92; KFI; KNX;
KXEZ. Corbett is is semi-retired and living in the Palm Springs area.Braverman, Erik: KFI; KABC,
1996-2008. Erik
left his post as the operations manager at KABC in late 2008. He is a
consultant to the LA Dodgers and co-owns Braverman Brothers production
company.Brazell,
Carl: Carl has served as the president, chief executive and director of the
company of Metromedia since November 2001 and as the chairman of the board of
directors since February 2002. Carl had extensive prior experience in the
radio and communications industries in the United States. Breckow, John:
KPFK. In the early ‘70s, Breckow doggedly promoted shows in Santa Barbara,
spun blues on KCSB, and ran a hip record store on Anapamu Street. After moving
to L.A., Breckow had a show on KPFK for years. John went to work for Rhino
Records.Breeze,
Connie: KRTH, 2002-03. Connie was born and raised in Detroit, her father
worked at Ford Motor Company and her mother was a music teacher. "We had a
huge theater organ in our living room and my mother always had a string of
students coming and going through the house." She studied political science at
Michigan and then went to Southern California and enrolled in broadcasting
school. In 1985 I got my first job in radio on Tucson Arizona. Since then, I
have been on many stations playing all types of music. She's now with The
Oasis in Las Vegas.Breneman, Betty: KLAC; KFWB, 1954-58; KHJ,
1958-73. Betty is president of Breneman Radio Services and
produces The Breneman Review audio magazine.Breneman, Tom: KBLA, 1958. Tom
was ceo of
Breneman Radio Services. He died September 9, 2003, at the age of 70, after
a lengthy battle with cancer.Brennen, Tom: KRKD, 1958. Unknown.Brenner, Carol: KWST, 1976; KZLA, 1977-79;
KMPC, 1979-80. Carol left radio to study for an M.B.A. at
Pepperdine University in order to prepare for the business
side of radio.Brent:
KBIG, 2006-08. Brent is with Virgin Radio, based in Dubai.

(Don Barrett, Sam Bellamy, and Bill
Banks)

Bresee, Frank: The radio performer and
broadcast archivist wrote Radio's Golden Years.Breshears, Carol: KPFK; KFWB, 1978-81. The
former program director at KFWB is president of the Radio and
Television News Association. "I want to preserve
journalism the way it used to be!" She is the assignment manager at FOX
11 News.

BRETT,
Ken: KMPC, 1987-91. The former Dodger pitcher was
one of the California Angels announcers in the late 1980s. He died
November 18, 2003, at the age of 55, of brain cancer.

During his career he played for ten
teams. For over a quarter of a century, Ken held the record for a
pitcher hitting the most homers – 4 – in a single season. He did it
with the Phillies in 1973.

Born in Brooklyn on September 18, 1948, Ken
pitched in the 1974 All-Star game. Brett became the youngest pitcher
to take the mound in a World Series game in 1967 when he threw
1-plus innings of relief for the Boston Red Sox against the St.
Louis Cardinals. Brett was 19 years, 1 month old at the time.

A part owner of the Spokane Indians minor
league baseball team and the Spokane Chiefs minor league hockey
club, Brett pitched 14 years in the majors and tied the modern major
league record by playing for 10 different teams, finishing with the
Kansas City Royals and his brother in 1981. The left-hander compiled
an 83-85 record with a 3.93 ERA in 349 career games.

Brewington, Ron: KLON, 1982-87; KGFJ,
1992-94; KJLH, 1992-97. Ron is a stringer for UPI radio and
his movie reviews frequently appear in movie ads.Brick, J.T.:
KLAC, 2009-15. J.T. works evenings at Fox Sports Radio, which is carried on
KLAC.Bridges, Gene: KLAC, 1989-93. Gene went to
work for St. Judes Children's Hospital.

BRIEM,
Ray:
KGIL,
1953-54;
KLAC,
1960-67;
KABC,
1967-94;
KIEV/KRLA,
1995-2002;
KPLS,
2002. Ray Briem died December 11, 2012, at the age of 82, of
cancer. He was best known as the all-night host of talk radio’s
millions of night owls for several decades.

Born in 1930, Ray
began his radio career as a 15-year-old in his hometown of
Ogden. He and his buddies hosted a radio
drama called “The Adventures of Vivacious Vicky.” During the
Korean War, Ray was heard on Armed Forces Radio and in 1953 he
became a dj at KGIL. A year later he hosted “The Breakfast Club”
on KLUB-SaltLakeCity
for four years.

In 1958 he was part of radio and tv at
KING-Seattle, where he hosted a
Seattle
Bandstand-type show. “They called me the Dick Clark of Seattle.” Ray returned to the Southland in
early 1960 to jock at KLAC. When KLAC started Talk radio with
Joe Pyne, Ray resisted He told Claudia Puig of the
LA Times: “I
went into it kicking and screaming. I liked playing the music. I
realized what a dumb head I was. I knew very little about
politics or the workings of government, and the first year I was
an embarrassment.”

He was hired at KABC on July 4, 1967. He
initially got a percentage of the advertising during his
all-night shift, but that perk was eliminated during a
recession. For eight years he show was carried nationally on the
ABC network.

In an
OC Register interview with Gary Lycan, Ray
said he was most proud of his 10-year association with
commentator Vladimir Posner from the former
Soviet Union: “I started calling Radio Moscow in the
fall of 1977. He would use our phone calls as basis for
commentaries. Nobody else was doing it.” Ray is a ham-operator
and received a Freedoms Foundation George Washington Medal for
information he helped supply after the seizure of the U.S.S.
Pueblo in 1968. Over 1,000 listeners paid $50 to attend his KABC
retirement party in late 1994. His favorite artists – Mills
Brothers, Frankie Laine and Tony Martin – performed.

Asked if he
would miss the all-night vigil, Ray said: “After 27 years on the
graveyard shift, my body says staying up all night ain’t the
right thing to do. Your biological clock, your circadian rhythms
are always upset.” In late 1995 Ray started an afternoon drive
talk show on KIEV.
The station eventually changed call letters to KRLA and on
September 11, 1999, Ray moved to weekends. He left the
Salem
station in early Fall of 2002 and joined weekends at KPLS
briefly.

BRILL, Bob: KNX, 1987
and 2006-15. Bob became a
UPI correspondent and later West Coast bureau chief for UPI Radio Network
based in LA. He owned KC Kings Sportscards in Ventura and works swing at KNX.
“I started in radio in 1972. I left L.A. to take my first real job
in Prescott, Arizona at KNOT. While there I also wrote a twice
weekly column on sports for the local paper.”

From Prescott, Bob made the nomadic journey
to eventually get back home. He worked in Palm Springs, Oklahoma
twice, KELP-El Paso, New Mexico for 9 days, and KVFM in LA was his
first L.A. gig. He went on to work at KJLH and KGFJ. He did some
news and sports for KNX and news on sister stations KHTZ and KNX/fm.
“I worked for the LA Times in a project that eventually
failed. Finally ended up as a National correspondent joining
Mutual/CBS. I became West Coast bureau chief for the UPI Radio
Network,” said Bob.

Brill continued: “I was beaten up in the LA
riots at Florence & Normadie while filing a report and ended up in
the hospital. I was one of the many who received an LA Press Club
Award for riot coverage, although I only covered for the one day due
to the injury.”

A fan of collectibles, Bob wrote the first
ever sports collectibles column for the UPI wire. “I had been
dealing trading cards part time for years and I am very heavily
involved today.” He left UPI to free lance and started his own
publication TBR: The Brill Report, which was the first hard news
publication in the memorabilia industry. I broke several stories,
including one picked up by the New York Times on exposing the dark
side of NFL Properties which remains a big story today.”

“I sold TBR and took a position with a trading card
manufacturer in 1995 and ‘due to my integrity’ I was let go after less than
a year,” Brill continued. “Honestly, that was the reason as told to me by
one of the other manufacturers after I left. He had inquired as to why I was
fired. I love that. anyway, I became a consultant with smaller trading card
companies and eventually moved to Ventura where I opened a sports card and
memorabilia store: KC Kings Sportscards [the K stands for Koufax and the C
for Clemente].”

“I patterned the Web site after the wire service, as
we take no industry advertising and promote a free and independent press.
I've broken several stories already although I don't have an archive system
yet. My son and I are working on a book on China. I’m also writing a
screenplay.

Bill was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and
graduated: Sylmar High School.

Brill, Charlie: KFI, 1975-76. Charlie was the
Captain on USA Network's Silk Stockings.Brink,
Scotty: KHJ, 1965-66 and 1968-70. Scotty lives in Oklahoma City and was voicetracking for an Oldies station in
Chicago.Brinker,
Bob: KABC, 2010-13. Bob's syndicated financial show is heard on KABC's
weekends.Brinkley, Amanda: KNX; KYSR, 1997. She
was working as Renee Brinkley at KNBR-San Francisco until the late 2000s.Britton, Boyd R.: KKDJ, KIIS, KTNQ; KWST;
KHTZ; KNWZ; KROQ, 1987-2015. Boyd, as Doc on the Roq, was the
news director at KROQ and worked morning drive with Kevin & Bean until
February 2015 when the station dropped news.Brodeur, Gene: KMPC, 1971-80; KUTE/KGFJ,
1982-84. Gene produces a bi-monthly series on political and
social issues for Montana Public Television.

(Dr. Frank
Baxter, Ken Borgers, Stan Brager, and Billy Bush)

Brodian,
Laura: KUSC, 1987-88; KFAC, 1989; KKGO/KKJZ, 1990-97; KGIL, 1997-98; KMZT,
2002-07; KCSN, 2008-09; KUSC, 2010. Laura worked at Classical K-Mozart until early fall of 2007.
She worked afternoons at KCSN until station automated in late September
2009. Laura is an arts reporter covering the Inland Empire. Brodie, Christine: KMET, 1984-87; KTWV,
1987-2002. In 1988 she was appointed program director. She resigned from the
"Smooth Jazz" station in the Fall of 2002. In early 2007, Chris joined the
Smooth Jazz Network at Broadcast Architecture as Vice President of Affiliate
Relatons.Broeske, John: KABC, 1988. John is pd at
KMJ-Fresno.Brookler, Rob: KIQQ, 1982-85.
Rob is president of Planetwide Publishing. He also hosts the website,
meditations2go.com. Brooks,
Barbara: Barbara has been a longtime traffic reporter for various stations.
She currently works the late evening shift at KNX.Brooks, Foster: KHJ, 1962. Foster died
December 21, 2001, of apparent heart trouble.

BROOKS,
John: KFWB, 1979-2009; KNX,
2009-13. After receiving six Golden Mike awards and reporting one
breaking news story after another, John hung up his microphone in
the spring of 2013.

Brooks first started in radio while a student at Allegheny College
in Pennsylvania, before moving to Southern California in 1970.“I was actually in school
learning television production when radio chose me. One of my
instructors was KVEN-Ventura’s Ned Rogers. He told
me of a job opening and since it paid about as little as the job I
had with the Ojai School district, I took it,” recalled Brooks.He credits KVEN news director
Rick Wallace for giving him needed training and
instruction before Wallace left Ventura for KABC and KPOL.Brooks then moved up to
Wallace’s position at KVEN.“After I won a bunch of Golden
Mikes, Don Schrack,
the news director at KFWB asked me to join his team of wild and
crazy men and women.”

It’s
evident to his listeners that Brooks has a style all his own.“I always hoped to be a bit
irreverent and crazy like Hunter Thompson, yet true to the facts and
accurate as Walter Cronkite and CBS News.There should always be an
element of entertainment in news when it is appropriate because
people are choosing to listen to your station, but you can’t cross
the line into fantasy.”

“There’s a
hidden joke somewhere in Brooks’ stories that you figure out about five
seconds after his reports,” claimed Pete
Demetriou, who shared his high
praise for his longtime colleague at both KFWB and KNX.“The man is solid and is one of the
most prepared journalists ever.He’ll take everything thrown at him,
yet sound so smooth on the air as if he’d spent 15 minutes rehearsing his
report.”

Though it was
hard to name one particular story that stands out, Brooks appreciates the
opportunity to have covered NASA and the Space Program. “I was fortunate to
cover many Space Shuttle flights and most of the science missions at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. I will never forget the third Space Shuttle mission,
the 1982 landing of Columbia at White Sands in New Mexico, when rain at
Edwards Air Force Base forced a change in plans. Had to rush there and it’s
a very different place.”And like many veterans, Brooks
remembers a few close calls as part of his job.“At KVEN I had to use the flat bottom
of my Volkswagen rabbit mobile unit as a boat across the raging Santa Rosa
creek.I
have had to jump under a fire blanket as a fire storm crested the ridge
during the Old Fire in 2003 and once a mobile unit was singed in another
brush fire.”

The business
has evolved quite dramatically since Brooks started at KFWB in 1979.“Technically we have a whole new array
of devices always with us, such as computers and smart phones to both
research and send in reports, the ability to cover breaking news has never
been better.”Yet Brooks still prefers some of the
way things were once done.“The irony is that we have so little
time to do the kind of quality stories we used to do with a pair of
alligator clips and a pay phone. In days gone by I would spend days
researching and interviewing for investigative reports, now we must do it
faster.”

Brooks
offered his advice to current and future broadcasters: “I have worked with
so many great people and the fellowship of the news wheel lasts a long time.Be
honest and try to tell stories filled with humanity, wonder, and
excitement.”

(Written by Alan Oda)

Brooks, Monica: KPWR, 1987-89; KCMG,
1998-99. Monica works mornings at WMZQ-Washington, DC.Brooks, Oscar: KPPC, 1981-82; KMPC, 1983-88; KMNY, 1988-89. Oscar
works with the Department of Justice as an adjudications officer.Brown, B. Bailey: KDAY, 1970-72.
B. Bailey died suddenly at his San Antonio home October 24, 2003. He was 57.Brown, Bill: KMPC, 1961-65; KHJ, 1965-74;
KRTH, 1974. Bill has designed a custom weather service on the
Internet that he is marketing.

Brown,
James: KMPC, 2002-06. The quarterback for the NFL Sunday Sports show started
in morning drive at all-Sports KMPC/1540 The Ticket for the Sporting News
Network in the spring of 2002, which ended in 2006.Brown, Jim: KPOL, 1962-64. Jim is an
entertainment feature reporter for the Today Show on
NBC.Brown, Laura: KFI, 1989-92; KROQ, 1990;
KABC, 1993. Laura is living in Newport Beach.Brown, Les:
KFWB, 2011-12. Les began his motivational talk show at KFWB on 1.3.11. He
replaced part of Dr. Laura's old slot. He left the News/Talk station in
April 2012.Brown, Stan: KBBQ, 1967; KGIL, 1967-76;
KBCA, 1976. Stan "the Animal" Brown has passed
away.Brown, Steve: KRLA, 1972-74. Steve founded
American Video Service in Irvine.

(Monica Brooks, Don Burns, and Steve Bisheff)

Brown,
Thomas: KGIL, 1970-85; KJOI, 1989; KNX, 1973-98. Born Thomas
Brown IV in 1938 in Evanston, Illinois. He attended the
University of Washington and graduated from the University of
Illinois in 1960 with a degree in journalism. After the Army,
Tom worked at KCMO and WDAF-Kansas City, WHN and WNEW-New
York and KNBR-San Francisco. The LA Times radio
columnist Don Page said of Tom: "He's the biggest new
star in the big town. He's witty and has his own style."
Tom died January 31, 1999. He was 61.Browne, Dr.
Joy: KGIL, 2007. The syndicated psychologist starts on KGIL on October 29,
2007.

BROWNING,
Bill: KRLA,
1971-72; KFI, 1974-75; KIIS, 1975-77; KOST,
1981-82. Bill was born in
Northwest Kansas. “Two years before graduating
from high school I started working at KXLK-Great Falls, Montana,
as an announcer. ”

In 1950 Bill joined KGB-San Diego
followed by KCBQ when it was a CBS affiliate. He stayed in
San Diego for 13 years working as pd at KFSD
(now KOGO) as morning man and pd. When KGB/fm was launched in 1959,
Bill was its first pd. “We pretty much had the market to ourselves
in those years and were operating in the black from day one.”

KGB was sold and Bill was off to Las Vegas
where he met his wife, Jean, and then to San Francisco and 7 years at KIOI beginning on
the night shift then moving to morning drive. “Ron Robertson was the
director of our fledgling news room.” Ron moved on to KFRC, then to
KRLA as nd where he hired Bill to produce the community service
program "In Session" and to do documentaries.

“Two months after arriving in 1971 my first documentary was aired,
‘Souvenir, Soldier.’ It won the Golden Mike award in the Best Documentary
category for 1971 also picking up an AP award and the Broadcast Media Award
from San FranciscoStateUniversity. Armed Forces
Radio also carried it.

In 1973 when KRLA went to an automated format I joined KFI where I won
another documentary Golden Mike.” Before Bill left the Southland radio he
worked at KIIS, both AM and FM and KOST as their first morning news anchor.
In between he anchored the tv news in Honolulu. “In 1982 I was
offered the ‘security’ of a lifetime job at CBS/TV Television City as
a staff announcer. The security ended when Bill Paley stepped down leading
to the mass firings of 1986. Several thousand were fired, something CBS had
never done before and I got caught in the second round. I ended my years in
broadcasting playing around at a couple stations in the AntelopeValley.
I have to call it playing around, for what they paid it couldn't be
considered work. In 1994 at age 64 I decided I'd had enough of the changing
fortunes of radio and retired.”

Bill passed away April 10,
2003, while retired in Kansas City. He was 72.

Bruce, Larry: KMET, 1974-75 and 1986. Larry
is gm of Nova 969-Sydney, Radio Australia.Bruce, Tammy: KFI,
1995-98; KABC, 2003-09. Tammy worked swing and fill-in at KABC until the
summer of 2009. She now hosts an Internet show on TalkStreamLive.com.

BRUNDAGE,
Hugh: KDAY, 1957-58; KMPC,
1965-72.
Hugh is probably one of the least remembered personalities on Old
Time Radio. He was a California native, born in 1909, who spent his
entire broadcasting career in Los Angeles.
He died in 1972, at the age
of 63.

After graduating from the University of
Southern California in 1931, he tried to embark on a career in
business, first dealing with the Signal Petroleum Company of Long
Beach. At the time that oil company was toying around with the idea
for a radio program based upon the Tarzan series of books by Edgar
Rice Burroughs. Burroughs happened to be in the corporate office
when Hugh was applying for the job. The personnel manager said that
positions that he was qualified for were already filled, in fact,
they were actually laying off some of the junior executives and
asking the senior ones to retire early.

But Burroughs heard
Hugh speak. "You know, son, you have a good speaking voice. How would you
like a job in radio? We'll be working in L.A. starting in a couple of days.
You don't even need to audition. I'll use the paperwork here to get you onto
the station." So Burroughs gave Hugh the information of where to go.

The radio station was KHJ. It was located next door to
a Cadillac dealership owned by Don Lee, who was the Cadillac dealer for the
entire West Coast. Hugh wore his best suit. It was the man he was going to
interview at the Signal office in Long Beach who let him into the studio.

"Now, just so you know, Hugh," said Burroughts, "let me
explain how radio works. I am the sponsor. I am actually in charge of the
program. My company, Signal Petroleum, owns the Tarzan program. It's only 15
minutes and it will be playing only in states where they have Signal service
stations. As far as oil companies go, we're pretty small. They own the radio
program so they can get more customers. KNX and Don Lee, along with CBS,
only give us a place to put the show on. And, if someone goofs, they punish
us. So we have to do a good show."

Hugh was scared when he read the script. They let him
go over it alone for about 45 minutes. Then they went on.
There would be many more programs for
Hugh, although he would rarely use his name while announcing. He did so well
for Tarzan at KHJ; they hired him for work at KNX, and KFI/KECA (the two NBC
stations were both owned by Earle C. Anthony). Occasionally, he would give
his name, but that was so rare.

His voice became the voice of Oscar as he was the
announcer for the Academy Awards, no matter where they were held, and no
matter if they were a banquet or a formal awards ceremony.

After Academy Award show, Hugh continued as a staff announcer at KNX and for
many CBS shows produced at Columbia Square.

In 1957, he became the sole newsperson at radio station
KDAY in Santa Monica. In 1965, Gene Autry had purchased radio station KMPC
and TV station KTLA. He chose Hugh to be both stations' news director. He
was heard on KMPC during weekday afternoons and seen on KTLA at night.

(

Much of Hugh’s bio was provided by Know Old Time Radio
website)

BRUNDIGE, Bill:
KEZY.Chattanooga-born Bill Brundige, a
member of the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame and a
fixture on Southland radio and television stations for over three decades
died in April 2004. He was 89. Born William Wenrich "Bill" Brundige on
February 2, 1915, he was in broadcasting for 40 years before retiring in
1975. Bill was the solid, no-frills sports broadcaster. He was the “color
man” for Chick Hearn in the very first simulcast after the Lakers
moved from Minneapolis. He started his broadcasting career in 1937 at
WAVE-Louisville. During World War II, Bill was the West Coast sports
director for Armed Forces Radio Services broadcasting to the Pacific
Theater. He was discharged in 1946 and moved to Washington, DC, to broadcast
for Mutual Broadcasting System. While in DC, he worked with Ted Husing on
the “College Game of the Week” for Mutual.In the late 1940s,
Bill broadcast sports for Yale, Princeton, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit
Lions, and the Chicago Cubs. In 1952 the Cubs sent him to Southern
California to work at KHJ/Channel 9 to cover their Pacific Coast League
affiliate, the Los Angeles Angels. In the same year he joined Bob Kelley on
the LA Rams broadcast team until 1960. He covered sports for all the local
tv stations.

When
Walter O'Malley expressed an interest in bringing the Dodgers to Los
Angeles, Bill hosted TV's "Dodger Talk" in an effort to convince the
community that the Dodgers should be invited to locate in L.A. and be
headquartered in Chavez Ravine. In 1964 he founded “Bill Brundige Auto Glass,”
which grew to a three-store chain. Bill claimed that with his company,
people could see right through him. He retired from broadcasting in 1975
upon removal of his left lung. He spent decades hosting a sports report on
KEZY, mostly from his home bedroom studio.

Bruno, Jon: KBIG, 1998-2000; KPLS,
2001-03; KRTH, 2008-13. Jon broadcast news on several stations in the Southland, including
K-EARTH.Bruno, Tony: KXTA,
2000-04; KMPC, 2005-07; KLAC, 2008-12. Tony joined evenings at KLAC in the
fall of 2008 and left in early 2009 when KLAC and Fox Sports Radio merged.
He returned for evenings during the summer of 2009. He left his Philadelphia
sports station in June 2014.Bryan, Gary: KRTH,
2002-15. Gary started mornings at K-Earth on June 10,
2002. He is also the syndicated host with Dick Clark on Rewind.

(BJ, Brother Bill, Leah
Brandon, Janet Brainin, and Stan Bohrman)

BRYANT,
Willie: KDAY;
KALI. Known as the
"Mayor of Harlem" when he was a New York dj, he started out as part of a
dance team playing the "original" Apollo, strip joints and nite
clubs. He loved to help up-and-coming talent. Composer, conductor
and singer who led his own dance band from 1933 to 1939, and again
from 1946 to 1948. He also worked as a disc jockey and as a master
of ceremonies. Joining ASCAP in 1960, he composed the popular song
It's Over Because We're Through.

Born in New Orleans on
August 30, 1908, Bryant grew up in Chicago and took trumpet lessons to
little success. His first job in entertainment was dancing in the Whitman
Sisters Show in 1926. He worked in various vaudeville productions for the
next several years, and in 1934 he appeared in the show Chocolate Revue
with Bessie Smith. In 1933, he put together his first big band, which
at times included Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole, Johnny Russell, Benny Carter, Ben
Webster, Eddie Durham, Ram Ramirez, and Taft Jordan. They recorded six times
between 1935 and 1938; Bryant sings on 18 of the 26 sides recorded. Once
his ensemble disbanded, Bryant worked in acting and disc jockeying.

He recorded r&b in 1945
and led another big band between 1946 and 1948. During September and October
1949, he hosted Uptown Jubilee, a short-lived all-black variety show on
CBS/TV. He moved to California later in the 1950s and died of a heart attack
in Los Angeles on February 9, 1964, at the age of 56.

Bubba, the Love Monkey: KQLZ, 1989. Various
personalities were Bubba during the early days of
"Pirate Radio."

BUCHANAN, Buck: KRLA, 1985-86; KRTH,
1989-93. Buck died August 6, 2005. He was the son
of actor Edgar Buchanan, who gained fame on the Petticoat Junction tv series. Buck worked with "Emperor Bob" Hudson as a team in
early 1980 in Hawaii. They teamed briefly in 1985 on KRLA in morning
drive. He went on to work at K-EARTH for almost five years.

Buck started his radio career in
1965 working in Hawaii, Pennsylvania and East Virginia. He died of advanced colon cancer that had metastasized and
spread to every vital organ. “At the end, he was at peace with himself and he
was at peace with God. May our friend now rest in peace,” wrote Michael Moore Anglado.

Buchmann,
Bob: KLOS, 2009-11. Bob was appointed pd at KLOS in early 2009. He arrived from WAXQ (Q104.3) in New York.
He left KLOS on 10.26.11 when Cumulus took over Citadel/LA. Bob became
morning man at
KGB-San Diego in early summer of 2012.Buck Head: KYSR, 2001-02. Buck
Wise arrived at KYSR from Las Vegas in the
spring of 2001 and left in early 2002. He left WVMW (98.7 AMP) in Detroit in
early 2013.Buckley, Richard: KGIL. Richard is president
of Buckley Broadcasting and the company owns WOR-New York and
other stations. He is based in Hartford.Budnik, Buddy: KDAY, 1969; KRLA, 1972-73.
Buddy sells real estate in Hollywood and the San Fernando
Valley.Buell, Bruce: KFAC; KUSC; KPOL. Bruce passed
away April 23, 1996, of emphysema. He was 77. The veteran announcer
specialized in Classical music for more than four decades. He originated the
program Crossroads of Music. He was married for 30 years to another radio
personality, Ruth Buell, better known as "Uncle Ruthie" of the KPFK
children's show.

BUHLER,
Rich: KBBI, 1964-69; KFWB,
1968-72; KNX, 1972-74; KFWB,
1974-76; KBRT, 1980-90; KBRT, 2008-12. Rich,
part of the embryonic days of the all-News format at KFWB in 1968
and most recently known as "The Dean of Christian Talk Radio," died
May 7, 2012, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was
65.

Rich got started on the air at the age of
17 for a local fm station and after graduating from college was
“salivating,” as he described it when interviewed for Los
Angeles Radio People, with the
opportunity to get into broadcast news. He was there when KFWB
launched all-news, in various capacities.

“I had a powerful spiritual renewal in the
mid-1970s that changed my direction to a career in ministry,” he
said. And although Rich continued working in media as a free-lancer
and consultant, he became an ordained minister and served on the
staffs of several churches, including being the senior pastor of a
church in Long Beach for seven years.

In 1980
he was asked to help put together a competitive news department for
Christian formatted KBRT (740AM) when they had people like Johnny
Magnus and Clark Race spinning Christian records. When the station changed format a year later,
Rich proposed doing a commercially aggressive, drive-time talk show and
brought “Talk from the Heart” on the air. It is credited with having
introduced a new era in Christian Talk radio. Later, the program was
“Table Talk” and was heard on KGER and KKLA.

In
1995 Rich stepped down from hosting 15 years of live, daily talk radio and
concentrated on his own production company in Orange, Branches
Communications. He became a nationally known speaker and author with several
best-selling books (No
strings Attached and Pain and
Pretending, both dealt with emotional
injury) and he won numerous awards including an honorary doctorate from

He was a member of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters in
Hollywood.

He was also a recognized researcher and writer about
myths and urban legends. His articles appeared in newspapers and magazines
internationally and he was the creator of TruthOrFiction.com, a popular web
site that researches Internet stories, hoaxes, and rumors. Rich appeared on
all of the major networks including CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, CBC, MSNBC, Fox
News, BBC, MTV, and had been interviewed by numerous newspapers and
magazines.

His personal interests included aviation (he was a
licensed commercial pilot of more than 30 years), computers, photography,
travel, fly-fishing, electronics, and cooking.

Rich leaves behind a combined family of ten children
and 12 grandchildren.

(Joe Buttita and John Brooks)

Bull, Frank:
The former LA Rams public address announcer retired to Palm Springs and has
passed away.Bunch, Don: KNAC, 1967-70. Unknown.Bunker, Ed: KFI, 1967-73. The former
KFI general manager died November 28, 1999, following a long
illness. Ed was sales manager at KNXT/Channel 2 and went on
to serve as vp of station relations, sales and vp of CBS,
Inc. in Washington, DC. Ed had been living in Ponte Vedra
Beach, Florida. He was 84.Bunn,
Graham: KKGO, 2014-15. Graham is set to join mornings at Country KKGO on 10.13.14
with Debra Mark. If you follow the trials and tribulations of The
Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, and Bachelor in Paradise,
Graham has been an intricate part of the drama. Born and raised in North
Carolina, he was a basketball stand-out in high school and played for
Appalachian State University, and then played professionally overseas in
Europe until an injury forced him to return home. In late 2007, he and two
college friends launched 46NYC – an apparel company that designs, manufactures
and markets its own line of clothing to raise money and awareness for causes
that impact our global community. Burdette, Bob: KBOB/KGRB. As owner and
manager of these two stations, he worked for years in the
1970s and 1980s to convince the listeners that KMPC was not
the only Big Band format in town.Burdette, Gloria: KBOB/KGRB. Gloria was pd
at the Big Band stations.Burke,
Billy: KIIS, 1996-99; KBIG, 1999-2000; KZLA, 2000-03; KFSH, 2004-06. Billy
worked morning drive at KFSH, "the FISH," until the summer of 2006. He's
teaching and coaching MMA and kick boxing.Burkey,
Cindi: KCRW, 1994-2005; KGIL, 2008. Cindi was the afternoon news voice on KCRW's
"All Things Considered" until late spring 2005. She's now with Metro
Traffic.Burnett, Larry: KFWB, 1998; KLAC,
1999-2008.
Larry hosted the "Laker Zone" pre-game show at KLAC. He now does
the WNBA Sparks games for Time Warner Cable.Burnham, Bonnie: SEE
Jennifer BurnsBurns,
Dave: KMLT, 2004-06. Dave was operations manager at KMLT ("JILL/fm").Burns, Don: KVFM, 1963; KNJO, 1964; KRLA,
1970-72; KROQ, 1973; KRLA, 1974-75; KIIS, 1975; KIQQ,
1976-77; KOST, 1978-80; KUTE, 1986-88; KTWV, 1988-2002 and 2003-10. Don left afternoon drive at "the
Wave" on April 18, 2002 and returned May 12, 2003. He left the last
time in late spring 2010.Burns,
Jennifer: Jennifer works for Total Traffic using the name Bonnie Burnham.

(Russ Barnett, Graham Bunn, Jeannette Banoczi, and Peter Burton)

Burrell,
Larry: KBIG, 1959. Larry went on to tv announcing. He passed
away in the early 1990s.Burson, Jim: KFWB, 1972-2000. Jim retired
from the all-News station in early 2000.Burton, Alan: KLOS, 1972; KFI. Alan worked
with Marshall Phillips doing news and talk at KLOS. Unknown.Burton, Michael: KROQ, 1990-95. Michael
"the maintenance man" left the Kevin & Bean
morning show in the fall of 1995 and filed a
wrongful-termination suit charging the station with racial
and religious discrimination. The suit was settled in late
1996 with both parties prohibited from revealing financial
details.Burton,
Peter: KRBV/KSWD, 2008-12. Peter was appointed vp/gm of the new Bonneville station
(100.3/fm The Sound) in the spring of 2008.Bush,
Billie: KBIG, 2008-12; KLST, 2012. The co-host of Access Hollywood started a syndicated
radio show on April 14, 2008. MY/fm carried the evening show until early
2012. He's now afternoons at Playlist 92.7/fm.

(Dennis Baxter, Jon Baird,
Clarence Barnes, and Richard Blackwell)

Bush, Birdie: KRLA, 1978; KIIS, 1979-86.
Birdie is working on a number of production projects and involved with real
estate in the Santa Clarita Valley.Buskett, Larry: KLAC, 1961-62. Last heard
Larry was working in Hawaii.Butler, Jerry: KHJ, 1970-73; KIQQ, 1973-75;
KGIL, 1975-76. Born in Cleveland, Jerry arrived at KHJ on
October 15, 1970, from WRKO-Boston. Jerry was one of the
original jocks at Drake/Chenault KIQQ. He left KGIL in 1976
and committed suicide a few months later.Butler,
John: KHJ, 1978-80. John is national program director, News/Talk, Salem
Communications, based in Dallas. Butta, PJ: KKBT,
1993-2006; KHHT, 2008-09; KDAY, 2012-14. PJ is teaching at Mt. Sac College
and hosting his worldwide syndication show for Radio Express. He also djs in
the hot spots in LA. PJ started working at KDAY in the summer of 2012 and
started doing mornings at the beginning of 2013.Butterworth, Gary: KIQQ, 1987; KLIT, 1990.
Gary works at KION/TV-Monterey.

He has been active in Southern California sports and media for
more than 25 years, and is a man who wears a variety of hats in his
many community-based activities. After nearly a decade as sports
director at KGIL, he entered television as the director of sports at
KTLA/Channel 5, where he was the nightly sports anchor and called
the play-by-play for the California Angels major league baseball
team, as well as UCLA football and basketball. While at KTLA he won
an Emmy and a Golden Mike for his work, along with awards from the
AP and UPI. He has also reported sports on Channels 9, 11 and 13.

While at Channel 11 he covered the Winter Olympics in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Buttitta is a graduate
of a Notre Dame High School/Cal State Northridge graduate. He has been a
Class-A member of the PGA for many years and has written golf for
Executive Golfer Magazine, Golf World Magazine, and
Natural Golfer Magazine. For 23 years his by-line appeared in the
L.A. Daily News as its golf columnist. During the summer of 1995 he
served as the host of “Talkin’ Golf”, a live call-in show on XTRA-Sports
690, which was produced by the Southern California PGA.

“Teaching Natural Golf
has revitalized my teaching career,” says Buttitta, who has been teaching
the Moe Norman-inspired swing. He estimates that 90-95 percent of his
students are Natural Golfers. “The Natural Golf method is easier to explain
and understand, therefore easier to teach to everyday players who just love
to play this game. It’s the most logical way I know to hit a golf ball off
the ground with a stick. Teaching is fun again!!”

BUTTRAM, Pat:
KNX, 1961-65; KGBS, 1966;
KMPC, 1989-93. Pat was sidekick to Gene Autry for
almost five decades. Born Maxwell E. Buttram in Alabama on June 19, 1915, he
was the son of a circuit-riding minister and studied theology
at Birmingham Southern College. He rode at Melody Ranch with
Autry, portrayed a shrewd landowner on tv's Green Acres (on CBS
1965-71) and was an omnipresent master of ceremonies for many Los
Angeles organizations. Pat died January 8, 1994, of kidney
failure. He was 79.

Buttram went to Hollywood in the
1940s and became a "sidekick" to Roy Rogers. However, since
Rogers already had two regulars, Buttram was soon dropped.
He was then picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from
his World War II service in the Army Air Force, to work with
him. Buttram would co-star with Gene Autry in more than 40
films, and in over 100 episodes of Autry's television
show﻿﻿.

Buttram was also honored with a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and also by a star on the
"Alabama Stars of Fame" in Birmingham.

Butts, Mike: KIQQ,
1972-73. Mike worked morning radio in Delaware until early fall of 2010. He
lives near Boston.

BYNUM,
Roland: KGFJ,
1967-74, pd and 1984-85; KJLH 1998-2015. Born in
Detroit
in 1940, after working at the MotorCity's
WCHB and WABX, Roland arrived in Los Angeles
to replace the
Magnificent Montague.

By 1970, "the
Soulfinger," as he was known, was the assistant pd and pd a year
later. He was at KGFJ until Gene West
arrived in 1974. In 1985, Roland did a show on Armed Forces Radio
Network. For a time Roland worked under the name Lee Cross.